Professional Experience and Expertise

Fikret Sebilcioğlu leads the Forensic & Integrity practice at Cerebra.

Fikret specializes in complex and sensitive corporate investigations. He has more than 30 years of experience working closely with clients and their legal advisers to develop and deliver investigation strategies, mainly dealing with fraud, bribery, corruption, misappropriation of assets, embezzlement, supply chain fraud, vendor schemes, disputes and money laundering.

He had led and conducted projects in the areas of forensic accounting, fraud investigations, fraud risk assessment and anti-fraud controls, fraud detection, compliance program evaluations, commercial disputes, litigation support and investigative due diligence.

Fikret has deep understanding of accounting (GAAP) including IFRS and auditing (GAAS). He is skilled in the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), the UK Bribery Act (UKBA).

Fikret has advised major law firms on litigation matters regarding fraud, white-collar crimes, post-acquisition purchase price disputes, the calculation of economic damages, arbitration supports, accounting and auditing, breach of contract claims. He also provided clients with additional compliance expertise including corporate intelligence services, compliance audit, anti-bribery and anti-corruption due diligences in the context of M&A operations.

Fikret advised boards of directors and its committees on fraud risk management and ethics & compliance related projects.

Prior to Cerebra CPAs & Advisors, Fikret worked with PwC for 15 years from 1993 to 2008 both in İstanbul, Turkey and Rotterdam, The Netherlands, where he performed financial statement audits of publicly and privately held companies in a variety of industries.

Qualification & Membership

He is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Certified Public Accountant, Registered Independent Auditor and TRACE Anti-Bribery Specialist.

Fikret is a member of Association of Certified Fraud Examiner (USA); a board member of Ethics & Reputation Society; a board member and vice president of Transparency International Turkey; a member of Istanbul Chamber of Certified Public Accountants; a member of Advisory Committee of ACFE Turkey; a past board member and current audit committee member of Corporate Governance Association of Turkey; a member of Institute of Internal Auditing of Turkey.

Fikret has authored articles and addressed numerous professional groups at conferences, seminars and forums on a variety of topics, including fraud prevention, detection and investigation, anti-fraud and anti-corruption compliance programs, ethics and compliance programs, corporate governance, financial reporting, internal controls.

He regularly publishes professional articles on anti-fraud and ethics & compliance related issues and is a recognised speaker at professional events. In addition, Fikret delivered courses on Business Ethics & Corporate Social Responsibility to the Executive MBA students at Özyeğin University between 2018-2022.

Education

İstanbul University, Bachelor of Science in Business Administration

Languages

English

Turkish