Professional Biography
Burçin serves as the Managing Director of Centrum Sworn-In Financial Advisory and Consulting since the beginning of 2015. He also serves as the Tax Associate of a Netherlands-based consulting group, NXT Group of Companies, Istanbul Office. He also serves as the Business Partner of Van Campen/Liem, a Dutch-based leading advisory firm for most of the Turkish conglomerates.
He still participates in many international conferences and round tables as a well-known expert speaker in his profession.
Experience in Public Sector
Burçin worked as a tax inspector within the Turkish Ministry of Finance Tax Inspectors Board for 10 years. Beginning from mid-2008, he was appointed as the Secretary General of the Turkish Accounting Standards Board (now named the Public Oversight Board), and took the role of adopting the International Accounting Standards (IFRS/IASs) into Turkish legislation for 3 years. During this period, he participated as a member in the Asian-Oceanian Standard Setters Group (AOSSG) and as an observer member in the World Standard Setters (WSS) Group. He took an active role in drafting the new Turkish Commercial Code (TCC) and represented Turkey with respect to accounting- and auditing-related regulations of the new TCC during the negotiation process of the EU Acquis.
Experience in Private Sector
He left office in the public sector in 2010, and took office as the Auditing Group Coordinator of Koç Holding Inc., which is the biggest conglomerate and the only Top 250 Fortune Global Listing company in Turkey, with nearly 190 companies and 50 billion dollars of annual gross turnover. During the last three-year period until his participation in Centrum, Burçin served as the Tax Management Coordinator of Koç companies, responsible for the tax advisory and management of the group firms.
Associations
He acted as a member in TUSIAD (Turkish Industry and Business Association) Sub-Working Committee on Intellectual Property Rights during the period 2011–2014, and as a TUSIAD representative in the Public Oversight Board’s Accounting Standards Review Committees between 2011 and 2013.
He has been serving as the Executive Board Member of the International Financial Management Association of Turkey since 2013.
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Education
Burçin received his BA degree in Business Administration from the Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences. Burçin also received his PhD degree in “Accounting & Finance” from Başkent University, Academy of Administrative and Social Sciences.
About Centrum
Centrum provides services to many international and domestic companies in the fields of tax, independent audit, corporate finance, internal audit, corporate risk, and management consultancy. In addition to the corporate services that it specializes in, it also offers comprehensive tax consultancy and tax compliance services.
Since its establishment in 2015, with more than 450 customers and nearly 100 employees, it has become one of Turkey’s fastest-growing consulting firms within 10 years. It provides consultancy services to a large number of corporate firms, with partners consisting of 13 people, each of whom are experts in their fields, and a staff, 40% of whom hold a master’s degree. Centrum has achieved a unique place in the sector since it is Turkey’s first firm specializing in international consulting and transfer pricing.
Centrum has been selected as “Turkey’s Best Tax Firm” in 2018 and 2024 by International Tax Review (ITR). Starting from 2018, Centrum has been listed as a “Top Level Transfer Pricing Firm” and “Top Level Tax Firm” in the World Transfer Pricing and World Tax Guide issues published by the ITR. In its 2024 edition, Centrum is again ranked as a Recommended Firm in Turkey for both tax and transfer pricing categories by ITR.
At the beginning of 2019, Centrum signed a strategic partnership agreement with Germany-based ETL Global in order to strengthen its activities worldwide and received the status of Turkey Office of ETL Global. ETL Global operates in more than 50 countries with more than 40 years of history and more than 1,000 offices. ETL Global is ranked among the top 5 tax and audit companies in Germany and has an income of more than 810 million euros only in Germany. Its combined worldwide income is at the level of 1.3 billion euros. The company has around 850 offices in Germany. ETL Global operates worldwide with more than 9,000 employees and more than 200,000 customers.
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