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Can Yalcin

Can Yalcin

Cloud Finops Specialist
Bratislava - Staré Mesto

Summary

An enthusiastic technology-based solutions lover over seven years of experience with business development,
sales and finance background. Specializes in problem-solving and collaborating with internal teams, stakeholders and high-level decision-makers. Engages customers to determine their needs, effectively communicates technical and non technical details to clients.
Experienced professional who enjoys learning and applying new technologies such as Python, cloud services, 3rd party applications and focuses on improving needed skills to ensure maintaining cloud cost spend and environment stability through data analysis, consulting, accurate documentation and creative problem-solving.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
7
7
Certification
2
2
Languages

Work History

Financial Analyst

Amazon Web Services
Bratislava
01.2022 - Current
  • Researched, analyzed and resolved Customer’s inquiries (300 accounts/customers/ISVs/Resellers from different countries in EMEA region) and payment blockers
  • Reconciled AR balances, managed and resolved every financial discrepancy between AWS' and Customers’ accounts (30+ cases per months)
  • Created and implemented standard operating procedures and process workflows. Analyzed, recommended and implemented process improvements (I have created data entry app with python to automate daily excel tasks, saved 59 hours per year).
  • Collaborated with Global Finance Operations team, stakeholders and internal business partners in EMEA and US. Timely reported via weekly metrics and provided status updates on customers’ accounts and projects (weekly and monthly reports to Line Manager)

Finance Analyst

Amazon.com, Inc.
Bratislava
06.2019 - 12.2021
  • Acted as main point of contact for Amazon vendors in Turkey and created mutual trust, reduced shipment holds
  • Addressed any account related inquiries, concerns from vendors and solved 300+ trouble tickets, 30+ compliance related tickets per month
  • Participated in expansion of self-service functionality in order to improve vendor experience and reduced manual processes
  • Educated vendors for compliant XML formats of e-invoices and decreased monthly rate of incompliant invoices from 18% to 7%
  • Defined and owned monthly business metrics and KPIs for invoicing processes and reported to finance and retail business directors

Sales Export Manager

Arbor Ahsap Pencere
Istanbul
01.2019 - 05.2019
  • Prepared offers in accordance with projects and customer requests
  • Followed up tender processes, made translation of papers from English to Turkish, shared documents with production team
  • Established technical communication with 13 key customers
  • Ensured safe delivery of goods by handling and taking proper care of goods during 21 different transports
  • Prepared all necessary documents and managed documentation process

Note: This was a temporary job I had in my hometown while waiting for EU Work Visa Process to be completed. After 4 months I had the visa and moved to Bratislava for Amazon

Sales Export Manager

Erbay Sogutma (HVAC-R)
Istanbul
03.2017 - 12.2018
  • Organized and Participated in 6 Overseas Sales Visits (Romania, Australia, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan)
  • Managed and supported my team (2 technicians, 2 sales engineers, 1 assistant)
  • Managed 7 distributors from different countries (Romania, Australia, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan , Georgia)
  • Supported distributors according to their needs (technical education, advertisement materials, financial support)
  • Searched New Markets (Chiller Markets) and Established 12 New Business Partnerships (4 new distributors) from 11 countries
  • Attended 4 International Exhibitions (Romania, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Turkey)
  • Reviewed Export Sales Performance and Achieved Annual Targets

Education

Bachelor of Science - Labor And Industrial Relations

Kocaeli University, Kocaeli/ Turkiye
07.2012

2008-2012

Skills

  • AWS CloudWatch, AWS EC2, AWS IAM, AWS S3, AWS VPC
  • Route 53, SQS, SNS, AWS Key Management Service, Amazon Redshift, DynamoDB
  • Python
  • Oracle E-Business Suite
  • SAP Ariba
  • Verbal/Written Communication
  • Negotiations
  • Full Sales Cycle
  • Educating Customers on Best Practices
  • Developing Technical Content/ Whitepapers
  • Cloud Cost Optimization
  • Cloud services

Certification

AWS Partner: SAP on AWS (Business)

Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect Associate

AWS Cloud Services and Infrastructure - Cost Optimization Deep Dive

AWS Cloud Quest: Solutions Architect

AWS Cloud Quest: Cloud Practitioner

AWS Well-Architected Proficient

AWS Partner: Cloud Economics Accreditation

AWS Partner: Sales Accreditation (Business)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/can-yalcin/details/certifications/

https://www.credly.com/users/canyalcin/badges

Languages

English
Advanced
C1
Turkish
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)

Timeline

Financial Analyst - Amazon Web Services
01.2022 - Current
Finance Analyst - Amazon.com, Inc.
06.2019 - 12.2021
Sales Export Manager - Arbor Ahsap Pencere
01.2019 - 05.2019
Sales Export Manager - Erbay Sogutma (HVAC-R)
03.2017 - 12.2018
Kocaeli University - Bachelor of Science, Labor And Industrial Relations

Work Availability

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