Ahmet Simsek Yaver

Ensuring the supervision and coordination of audit and internal
control activities in line with international audit standards and best
practices. Coordinating and conducting examinations and
inspections. Providing consultancy on projects related to internal
audit. Carrying out Quality Management Standards project within EY
Turkey, to ensure the coordination of the controls made by the
functions and to provide audit assurance. Dealing with EY Turkey’s
responsibilities to design, implement and operate a system of quality
management for audits or reviews of financial statements, or other
assurance or related services engagements.

Altınhas Holding is one of the leading holding companies in Turkey and has investments in the fields of finance, education and real estate investment. Altınhas Holding A.S. is the parent company of Albank(Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus), Birlik Asset Management, Ak Factoring, Vega Colleges, Altınbas Association, Altınhas Construction and Real Estate.
Responsibilities:
Build and lead a team of Internal Auditors including hiring new team members, setting team and individual objectives, coaching team members, and delivering performance evaluations.
Engage with business leaders on business performance, strategic priorities, and operational matters to establish and prioritize the Internal Audit engagement roadmap
Partner with the Compliance and AML/CFT departments to identify and assess current and emerging risks, themes, and trends globally
Maintain a strong relationship with the Compliance and AML/CFT departments to ensure effective and efficient coordination of Group’s compliance and AML/CFT activities
Maintain the rolling twelve-month Internal Audit project plan through direct input, insight, and perspective around the current business, industry, and regulatory risk factors
Maintain and seek approval for the Internal Audit charter
Represent the Internal Audit function globally to Group leadership, the Board of Directors, and regulatory stakeholders
Deliver project results in accordance with the Internal Audit plan
Participate in global initiatives with a focus on improving compliance and AML/CFT outcomes.
Provide advisory services across the Group to lead process improvement initiatives across operational, financial and compliance functions

• Supervising tests about data quality regularly.
• Executing the necessary actions for correcting and improving data quality.
• Reporting data quality analyses to ExCo.
• This unit set domain strategy (e.g., boundary, DE prioritization, and roadmap), manage domain metadata (e.g., business definition), manage quality of domain data, e.g., define refresh policy, set system controls, design and monitor DQ metrics, lead remediation initiatives, responsible to users of domain data.
• Collecting and finding data problems to decrease cost of risk and operating expense,
• Making analysis to increase CAR(capital adequacy ratio) of the bank.

• Controlling the budget compliance of the demands which are coming from Branches and Head Office to Demand Centers,
• Rejecting or approving decisions after evaluating the demands.
• Considering alternatives other than buying, offering saving suggestions, assisting to find replacement budget for unbudgeted demands.
• Contract renewal periods, controlling the terms and conditions if
they were suitable for the bank interest or not, and giving approvals, and taking responsibility with the purchasing departments jointly
• Following purchasing requests and evaluation processes, and giving information and direction to the related parties at related process.
• Controlling and evaluating the travel and other expenses of the staff whether the expenses are measured up according to the banking procedures or not. After evaluating, giving decision for collecting the expense from staff's wage or from bank.
• Approving or rejecting the requests/orders which exceeds the limits, and approving or rejecting the invoices which are below or above amount of USD 50.000. If Non HR, Investment and project budgets were insufficient during the year, we would perform budget transfer.
• Preparing the cost committee meetings notes and presentation.

• Controlling private banking customers’ portfolio (forwards and derivatives),
• Controlling the transactions of clients with high number of transactions in branches,
• Controlling maximum time deposit account interest rate that could be given by the bank,
• Controlling deposit accounts, funds, custodies and receivables which are subject of prescription,
• Controlling daily foreign exchange transactions,
• Controlling money withdrawals and interest rates of deposit accounts,
• Controlling credit cards, loans and checkbooks given to staff by means of banking law compliance,
• Controlling commissions and charges taken from clients by means of compliance with pre-announced commission / charge rates.

Additionally, Investment Products Department is responsible for bellow mentioned issues:

• Follow the recent changes in internal and external procedures and updating the checklist accordingly.
• Perform regular controls to see if staff makes any financial transactions which are inconsistent with ethic rules.
• Make additional studies or projects, upon the special demand of top management.

•Controlling and reporting the transactions of the related audit area, to see if they are consistent with both internal and external regularities.
•Finding out the details about the investigation, collecting information and documents, keeping this documents safely and identifying the responsible people of the investigation/examination.
•Preparing the investigation/examination reports.

•Controlling and reporting the transactions of the related audit area, to see if they are consistent with both internal and external regularities.
•Finding out the details about the investigation, collecting information and documents, keeping this documents safely and identifying the responsible people of the investigation/examination.
•Preparing the investigation/examination reports.

•Controlling and reporting the transactions of the related audit area, to see if they are consistent with both internal and external regularities.
•Finding out the details about the investigation, collecting information and documents, keeping this documents safely and identifying the responsible people of the investigation/examination.
•Preparing the investigation/examination reports.