Alihan Tuncel

Professional Experience and Expertise

Alihan Tuncel is Senior Consultant in the Forensic & Integrity Department at Cerebra with 4 years of experience, Alihan has worked as a Risk and Compliance Consultant at KPMG and a Forensic Consultant at Ernst & Young. During these periods, he primarily focused on internal control, compliance, anti-money laundering, fraud investigations and third-party reviews.

He joined Cerebra in 2024. Alihan is actively involved in projects related to fraud investigation, forensic accounting, internal audits, fund audits and open-source intelligence (OSINT) for domestic and foreign companies.

In the field of fraud prevention, investigation and compliance, Alihan has undertaken the following responsibilities:

• Preparing various intelligence reports for local and multinational companies to identify conflicts of interest and negative information formation related to shareholders, employees, customers, vendors and other parties.
• Conducting electronic discovery reviews for investigations into bid rigging, corruption, bribery and abuse of office.
• Establishing and reviewing preventive/detective internal control mechanisms to prevent fraud and corruption risks.
• Conducting re-revenue calculation processes to verify tenant revenue submission values and processes for relevant shopping malls in the event of tenant-landlord disputes.
• Analyzing and reporting the findings obtained in the audit work, providing actionable and value-adding recommendations for non-conformities.
• Auditing the acquisition processes of local and multinational companies.
• Conducting Anti-Money Laundering (AML) work for various banks in Turkey in accordance with local regulations and international guidelines, covering head office and branch operations.
• Conducting FCPA compliance reviews for globally recognized pharmaceutical companies involving the identification of high-risk areas related to expenses, promotional materials, conference sponsorships and donations.
• Performing background and integrity checks for individuals and legal entities regarding compliance audits and irregularity investigations.

Education 

Istanbul Bilgi University – Political Science