Ufuk Süleyman Oflaz

Ufuk Süleyman Oflaz

About

I work in financial management advisory. I have worked as an auditor and as a financial controller. Today I carry out my advisory work through Prime Numeris.

Each step showed me a different side of finance. When I look at a company’s financial question today, I try to see all of those sides at once.

Ufuk Süleyman Oflaz

Seeing every side of finance at the same table

Audit teaches you to ask for the evidence behind a number. It is not enough to say an amount is right; you need to know how it was produced, which process it went through and what supports it.

Corporate financial control shows the other side: the numbers an auditor examines from outside are produced inside, under time pressure, system constraints and human judgement. When the process is poorly designed, even the most careful control comes too late.

Financial reporting connects these two views through a common language. In Turkey, tax touches almost every sentence of that language: it shapes how records are kept, how decisions affect cash, and what risks a company carries.

In my advisory work I try not to separate these four perspectives. The root of a cash squeeze may lie in the tax calendar, the root of a reporting problem in a process, and the root of a budget variance in its assumptions. Good financial judgement starts with seeing which layer the problem sits in.

Professional Experience

  1. Grant Thornton

    Audit

    Evidence-based examination of financial statements and the records behind them on audit engagements; tax compliance review and advisory.

  2. UEDAŞ

    Financial Control

    Financial control, reporting and process improvement within a corporate structure.

  3. Forvis Mazars

    Audit

    Alongside audit, financial reporting and tax compliance review and advisory work, the digitalisation of audit processes: designing audit working papers in a standard, traceable and reusable structure.

  4. Prime Numeris

    Founder

    Fractional CFO, financial management advisory. My advisory work is carried out through Prime Numeris.

Education

  1. Public Finance

    Gazi University

  2. Econometrics

    Gazi University

  3. Economics

    Anadolu University

  4. Computer Programming

    Anadolu University

  5. Public Finance, Master’s degree

    Uludağ University

Professional Qualification

SMMM
Serbest Muhasebeci Mali Müşavir — Turkish Certified Public Accountant

Areas I work in

Selected work

Recent writing

Approach

  1. 01

    Clarity

    Expressing a complex financial situation simply enough for the person who must decide. Simplicity is not discarding detail; it is bringing forward what matters.

  2. 02

    Evidence

    Grounding a judgement in the data and documents that support it. Writing assumptions down and making them testable.

  3. 03

    Systems

    Building structures that deliver the same quality every period, rather than one-off analyses. A good model should work without its author in the room.

  4. 04

    Decision usefulness

    Measuring a report or analysis by what it adds to management’s decision. Information that does not inform a decision is noise.

  5. 05

    Professional scepticism

    Before accepting what the numbers say, asking what they do not say. Consistency is not proof of accuracy.

  6. 06

    Financial discipline

    Monitoring cash, risk and commitments regularly, consistently and on time. Discipline makes problems visible before they grow.

Intellectual Interests

Fields I read about and think through regularly, and that feed into my professional work.

  • Financial decision systemsHow companies turn information into decisions — and where they lose it.
  • Economic institutionsHow rules and institutions shape economic outcomes.
  • Why companies failWhat the financial statements say before the problem becomes visible.
  • Artificial intelligenceWhich parts of audit, accounting and advisory work will change.
  • Data analysisExamining and interpreting financial and economic data with econometric methods.
  • Audit technologyHow moving from samples to full populations changes the audit approach.
  • Software automationTurning repetitive professional work into reliable tools.
  • Economic historyPast counterparts of today’s financial questions.