Own full-cycle FP&A
Budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis across cost centers, with monthly reporting packages presented to finance leadership.
Cem · Yarligas
7+
Years in FP&A
Consumer goods · E-comm · SaaS
Pigment
EPM Platform
Models · Dashboards · Allocations
MS
Financial Analytics
Bentley · FMVA® certified
50%+
Cycle time cut
Reporting & planning workflows
Cem Yarligas — FP&A and AI-Driven Finance
Senior FP&A professional with 7+ years across consumer goods, e-commerce, and technology, working at the intersection of planning, EPM systems, and AI.
What I do
Build EPM in Pigment
Design Opex, Capex, workforce, and headcount models, dashboards, and allocation logic that replace fragile Excel workflows.
Lead reporting automation
Move teams from manual Excel rollups to automated workflows, cutting monthly P&L lead time by a full week.
Bring AI into finance
Capture finance workflow knowledge and apply AI to variance investigation, documentation, and decision support.
Summary
A short version.
Senior FP&A professional with seven years across consumer goods, e-commerce, and technology. My work sits where finance meets systems: I own full-cycle planning and forecasting, but what I'm known for is rebuilding the infrastructure underneath it. Most recently I architected a global P&L planning environment in Pigment from the ground up.
Lately I've been building with AI rather than just talking about it: custom automation agents that eliminate hours of manual prep, and a finance reasoning layer I'm developing to bring AI-driven workflow documentation into production. I care less about maintaining processes and more about redesigning the ones that shouldn't exist.
Professional experience
Selected roles.
Evenflo Inc.
Senior Financial Analyst
Sep 2022 — Present
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.
- 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
PigmentFP&AWorkforce PlanningD365Executive Reporting
Matroh LLC
FP&A Analyst
Jun 2021 — Sep 2022
Buda, TX
Fast-growing e-commerce startup designing and selling diversified consumer goods through multiple online channels.
- Built product profitability and pricing models with scenario analysis across 50+ SKUs, informing pricing and margin strategy
- Established a reliable cash flow projection process that improved forecast accuracy and supported fundraising
- Monitored company valuation using DCF and market multiples models for investor and board communications
- Optimized inventory tracking and sales planning to align purchasing with demand patterns
PricingDCFCash FlowE-commerce
Meenta Inc.
Growth Analyst
Jan 2018 — Feb 2019
Boston, MA
Boston SaaS startup providing a global virtual network of genome-sequencing instrumentation and laboratory testing.
- Cut internal data entry lead time by 50% on the Meenta Mapping Platform through process optimization
- Built a database of thousands of NGS service providers using Google BigQuery and web scraping
SaaSProcess OptimizationBigQuery
Migros Ticaret
Senior Investment Planning Analyst
Oct 2015 — Sep 2017
Istanbul, Turkey
Turkey's leading retailer with 50K+ employees and $9B in annual revenue.
- Reduced investment plan preparation for prospective stores from 7 days to 3 days through process redesign
- Built dynamic pro forma models for acquisitions valued up to $50M
- Forecast quarterly sales and cost targets, monitored actualization, tracked sales efficiency across the store network
Investment PlanningPro FormaRetail
Skills & tools
FP&ABudgetingForecastingVariance AnalysisPigmentEPM ArchitectureWorkforce PlanningHeadcount PlanningMicrosoft D365ERP MigrationFinancial ModelingDCFScenario AnalysisExecutive ReportingSQLAdvanced Excel
Recent writing
Field notes from the work.
August 2026 · EPM Transformation
Fix the accounting layer first: notes from the Pigment Catalyst panel
Over 50% of EPM programs experience delays, rework, or reduced adoption because organizations start before governance and data standards are in place. The tool is rarely the problem.
August 2026 · Finance Workflow Intelligence
When someone on your finance team leaves, where does the knowledge go?
Good documentation captures the what. Almost none of it captures the why. And in FP&A, the why is the whole job.
July 2026 · AI in Finance
Variance analysis is not a data problem. It is a memory problem.
AI can spot the anomaly. But it cannot tell you why the number moved, because the why was never written down anywhere it can reach.
Get in touch
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