Cem Yarligas

Resume

FP&A leader translating messy finance ops into clean systems.

Senior FP&A professional with 7+ years owning full-cycle planning, forecasting, and reporting across consumer goods, e-commerce, and technology. Builds the financial infrastructure others rely on: rebuilt a global P&L planning architecture from the ground up in Pigment and cut monthly reporting cycles by 50%+. Designs and deploys AI agents to automate manual finance workflows and turn data into self-service analytics, with a finance reasoning layer in active development.

Boston, MAcemyarligas@gmail.com857-498-8771linkedin.com/in/cem-yarligas
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Core expertise

Pigment (dimensional modeling, allocation logic, dashboards, data integration, AI Modeler Agent)Advanced Excel (3-statement models, DCF, pro forma, scenario analysis)Microsoft Dynamics 365SQLGoogle BigQueryMicrosoft Copilot agentsClaude AIPrompt engineeringFP&ABudgetingForecastingVariance Analysis

Professional experience

  1. Sep 2022 — Present

    Senior Financial Analyst

    Evenflo Inc. — Canton, MA

    Global consumer goods company (juvenile products), Canton, MA.

    • Own end-to-end budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis across 10+ cost centers and a +$100M OpEx portfolio, presenting monthly insights and recommended actions to Finance leadership
    • Improved OpEx forecast accuracy to 90% across a +$100M OpEx portfolio through driver-based modeling and tighter variance tracking
    • Rebuilt the financial planning architecture in Pigment (dimensional model, GL-level hierarchies, and allocation logic) during the Microsoft Dynamics 365 migration, and automated monthly P&L reporting to replace a manual Excel process and cut reporting lead time by a week
    • Built Copilot Studio agents that render channel and product profitability as interactive React dashboards, with SKU-level variance analysis and driver-based scenario modeling that lets stakeholders self-serve insights and test plans on their own
    • Built OpEx, CapEx, Workforce, and Headcount dashboards that cut planning and reporting cycles from several days to a few hours
    • Serve as embedded finance partner to Operations and Product, and mentored financial analysts across reporting, data validation, and financial analysis

  2. Jun 2021 — Sep 2022

    FP&A Analyst

    Matroh LLC — Buda, TX

    Fast-growing e-commerce startup designing and selling diversified consumer goods through multiple online channels.

    • Built product profitability and pricing models enabling scenario analysis across 50+ SKUs, directly informing pricing strategy and margin optimization
    • Established a cash flow projection process from scratch and monitored company valuation using DCF and market-multiples models to support investor communications

  3. Jan 2018 — Feb 2019

    Growth Analyst

    Meenta Inc. — Boston, MA

    SaaS startup providing a global virtual network of genome-sequencing instrumentation and laboratory testing.

    • Cut internal data entry lead time by 50% through process redesign and automation, and built a database of thousands of NGS service providers using Google BigQuery and web scraping

  4. Oct 2015 — Sep 2017

    Senior Investment Planning Analyst

    Migros Ticaret — Istanbul, Turkey

    Turkey's leading retailer with 50K+ employees and $9B in annual revenue.

    • Built dynamic pro forma models for store acquisitions valued up to $50M, reduced investment plan preparation time from 7 days to 3, and forecast sales and cost targets across a 2,000+ store network