Yucel Yuksel

• Coordinated the technical preparation and execution of monthly closings for a €8 billion global enterprise, leveraging SAC Planning, BCS, BW, Analysis for Office, Datasphere, and Power BI • Served as the central liaison for all process, system, and reporting requirements across 500+ global users • Standardized master data management processes and embedded IT Service Management best practices • Explored and evaluated 7 AI-driven use cases, contributing to process innovation across Finance functions

• Assess the as-is data maturity, architecture, and processes to define the to-be structure • Develop and implement data and artificial intelligence strategy aligned with corporate goals • Evaluate options for a game-changer chatbot based on Generative AI with a cross-functional team • Steer the cloud migration (Azure Synapse, PySpark, and Power BI) • Set up a global analytics centre of excellence to save costs by 82% • Ensure proper data management for BI, AI, e-commerce, PIM, and S/4HANA projects

• Led 3 global teams of 38 people using HVR, Azure Synapse, Data Lake, Data Factory, and Tableau • Saved costs by 50+% (>1 Mio EUR) as a result of Azure migration and license rationalisation • Increased the 24/7 reliability of the data landscape to 99.9% for 1, 500 global users • Set up the data governance committee and defined the MDM processes, roles, and responsibilities • Supervised the global master data management program to improve process efficiency by 74%

• Pioneered SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP BW on HANA projects to boost performance by 91% • Robotics: Achieved 95% efficiency increase in warehouse operations by placing tags into rolls • Deep Learning: Reduced staff costs by 86% by identifying fabric defects via image recognition • Internet of Things: Digitalised health and safety for 600+ employees of the mining company • Robotic Process Automation: Improved the efficiency of 8 processes by 72%

• Supervised the data warehouse re-engineering project • Initiated fraud detection, complaint prediction, basket analysis, and credit risk scoring projects • Launched data dictionary, impact, and lineage analysis • Received TDWI best practice award in big data category with a project of which ROI was 300% • Won Best Product Award with the real-time mobile BI application developed for 900+ users • Conceptualised and spearheaded campaign management project – ROI: 700%

• Headed the SAP BusinessObjects ecosystem of 24 partners and 500+ B2B clients in 25 industries • Undertook the responsibility of events like SAP Analytics and Innovation Forum • Boosted sales by 11% and achieved the national sales quota of €3,000,000 • Presented 2 big deal success stories to 106 colleagues from 22 countries • Took 1st place in presentation contest with the votes of 4,000 people