Mikail Aykul

Founded an independent research venture applying quantitative methods across asset classes, building data pipelines and backtesting logic to evaluate strategy hypotheses.

Prepared IFRS financial statements and management reporting packs, led digitalisation of reporting with SQL, VBA, and Power BI/Qlik Sense dashboards, and rebuilt the external audit interface.

Led audit engagements end-to-end for publicly traded clients across energy, telecommunications, REIT, and manufacturing, including IPO engagements, and reviewed financial statements for IFRS compliance.

Executed substantive testing and controls work on engagements across energy, telecommunications, REIT, and manufacturing, and prepared audit documentation and reconciliations under IFRS.

Built pricing and ROI models for B2B SaaS products, produced revenue analyses for international clients, and acted as the analyst bridge between commercial and engineering teams.

SMMM (Turkish CPA) candidate, traineeship in progress.

In-house training on Financial Modeling and Valuation (Excel) completed in January 2025.

Activities and societies: Media & Debate Society, Speculative Fiction Society, Career & Business Society.

BSc in Economics from Middle East Technical University, completed in June 2022.

Certificate in International Financial Reporting (CertIFR) from ACCA.

In-house training on SAP S/4HANA Finance (Fiori Apps) completed in June 2024.

In-house training on AI-Enhanced FP&A completed in May 2025.

In-house product training on Hospitality PMS & NetMonCRM completed in January 2018.