Payment Management Process

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Outlined below is our business model for payment management services tailored to companies: 

New Customer Evaluation and Planning Process

Customer Evaluation 

In the initial phase, we inquire about your preferred method for conducting payment transactions. While some clients prefer to opt for traditional written payment instructions, we often recommend online banking for its efficiency, security, and ease of tracking. This recommendation is particularly advantageous for our overseas clients operating in Turkey, as it accelerates transactions and ensures secure authorization, especially when signatories are based abroad. 

Online Banking Authorization 

If you opt for online banking, we facilitate the process of obtaining account monitoring, transaction, and approval authorization from your bank, if you do not already possess these authorizations. Subsequently, we acquire account monitoring and payment entry authorization on behalf of Cerebra.  

Upon preparing the necessary forms required by the bank to secure the relevant authorizations, we verify their accuracy with the bank. Once confirmed, we provide these forms to you for signature by the authorized signatory, before they are submitted to us. 

Signed Documents 

Upon receipt of the original signed documents, we promptly share them with your bank, thus concluding our online banking authorization process.

Payment List Preparation & Sharing Process

1. Payment List Preparation

  • We offer flexibility in organizing your payment lists, accommodating weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly intervals based on your invoice frequency. 
  • Upon inputting your invoices into our accounting system in accordance with your specified terms, we prepare your payment lists. 

 2. Detailed Review and Control

  • Our payment lists provide comprehensive details, including vendor information, invoice amount, number, date, due date, and description for each invoice. Following preparation, our managers conduct thorough reviews of the payment lists assembled by our assistants. 
  • Once our internal checks are finalized, we present the payment lists to you for approval, along with supporting documents. You conduct the final verification and decide whether the payments should proceed. 

 3. Payment Confirmation and Realization

  • Upon your approval for invoice payments, we proceed to input the payments individually into your bank’s online banking system. If transactions are to be executed via payment instructions, we prepare these instructions and submit them to the authorized signatory. 
  • After the entries are processed, we notify you, allowing you to finalize the process by approving the payments made through online banking. In cases where payments are made via bank instructions, signed payment instructions are sent to us for onward transmission to your bank. We oversee the process’s completion by monitoring the transaction’s status to ensure successful processing. 

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Case Studies

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Cerebra uncovered fraudulent activities of three senior executives in hidden relationships with a dawn raid

A multinational energy company (the client) was concerned about the costs of services received from a supplier for a critical project managed by its Turkish subsidiary (the victim company). The client requested Cerebra to investigate the reasons for this budget overrun and the suspicions surrounding the general manager, financial affairs manager, and accounting manager of the victim company, as well as the supplier. 

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Cerebra supported the victim company to recover loss of EUR 815.000 by uncovering fraudulent activities

Our client, a multinational food company, contacted Cerebra through their law firm in Turkey. The client suspected that their sales manager in Turkey had secretly established a firm with a distributor and was diverting company sales to this new entity. They requested Cerebra to calculate the potential loss caused by these suspicious activities.

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Cerebra provided forensic accounting services to a plaintiff in a widely publicized case concerning a bank manager's misappropriation of funds

In a high-profile case known to the public as the Seçil Erzan incident, the law firm representing one of the bank customers (client or plaintiff) contacted Cerebra to request a forensic accounting analysis of the plaintiff's account transactions, including an analysis of transactions in all foreign currencies, and to uncover any potential suspicious activities. 

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Cerebra uncovered irregularities committed by an accounting manager using fake physical documents and journal entries

Our client, one of Turkey's leading real estate investment companies, suspected an employee in the accounting and administrative affairs department of committing irregularities on reported expenses. Cerebra was assigned to investigate these suspicions. 

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Cerebra proved the conflict of interest and bribery schemes between the sales manager and a business partner

A multinational company with production facilities and sales offices across several continents contacted us through a Turkish law firm they collaborate with, to investigate suspicions about a sales manager working at their Turkish office. The suspicion was a possible hidden relationship between the sales manager and one of the company's customers. 

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Cerebra uncovered a multifaceted fraud case perpetrated by an employee with a gambling addiction

Our client, a supplier to globally recognized textile brands in Turkey, reported suspicions regarding the activities of their administrative affairs officer. In the defense statement obtained in this context, the suspect admitted to irregularities in the sale of two company vehicles and falsifying with some offers and invoices.

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Cerebra identified the misconduct of a senior executive, leading to the recovery of USD 12 million worth of stolen assets

A family-owned company, ranked among Turkey's top 100 industrial firms, reached out to Cerebra. The company’s shareholders suspected that the senior executive in charge of international sales was involved in fraudulent activities related to discounts on significant transactions and requested Cerebra to investigate these suspicions. 

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