Pınar ÇALIKUŞU

Director of Financial Services

She completed her secondary and high-school education at Bakırköy İmam Hatip High School. She graduated with honours from the Department of Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Selçuk University.

In 2005, she successfully passed the qualification examinations for Certified Public Accountant (CPA). During the early stages of her career, she gained extensive experience by managing accounting and financial operations across various sectors. In line with her vision for professional development, she strengthened her areas of expertise through various technical training courses, particularly in public finance, public legislation and financial reporting.

Pınar Çalıkuşu has been working at Fatih Municipality since 2020, serving in the revenue and accounting units under the Finance Department, where she has been involved in various stages of the municipality’s financial processes. Appointed as the Director of Finance and Revenue in 2026, Ms. Çalıkuşu is responsible for strategic budget planning, the management of accounting systems and the coordination of revenue policies.

Within the scope of her municipal work, she has played an active role in the transition to a programme-based budget system, the effective use of public resources, and the implementation of transparent financial management practices. She continues her work in the areas of ensuring compliance of technical data with legislation, strategic financial planning, and the management of activity reports.

Pınar Çalıkuşu is married and has two children.

Directorate of Financial Services

Performs all actions regarding revenues and spending, financing, accounting, and financial affairs of the municipality together with procedures and activities that requires follow up at other public institutions and organizations. Directorate of Financial Services collects taxes and dues on time and ensures revenues and receivables are collected in line with the law and in legal time. The Directorate is responsible for payment of expenditures to beneficiaries; checking, storing, delivering to concerned people, sending guarantee letters expressed in monetary terms and registering and reporting all other financial procedures. The Directorate prepares financial statements timely, correctly, in line with basic accounting concepts and accepted budget and accounting principles, in the framework of international standards and in a way to meet information needs of management and other relevant persons and form basis of final account; ensure effective performance of decision, control and accountability processes. Directorate of Financial Services performs its work and procedures in line with the law, responsible against senior management, and presents services emphasizing public satisfaction. Directorate of Financial Services performs its duties to fulfil procedures and works of citizens and shareholders correctly and in the shortest possible time, present information to taxpayers requesting information, complete their procedures in the shortest possible time, conduct all works and processes in line with legal procedures in force, create a regular and orderly work environment to increase contribution of employees to total efficiency, ensuring taxpayers are satisfied with municipal services.