1. Danial Khan , MBA , PMP, working on CPA Phone #: 713-294-2693
4950 Sugar Grove Blvd # 2502 Email: danialikhan@gmail.com
Stafford, TX 77477
Summary:
18+ years of professional
experience
Accounting (GAAP, GAAS and
IAS)
4 full cycle SOX 404 Audits
(IT and Financial controls)
Use COSO and CoBiT
frameworks.
In-depth work in internal
as well as external Audit
(Financial and IT).
Procurement of feedstock
for refineries as well as
other materials for global
supply chain processes.
Contract reviews and
matching with Inventory
received and Pricing
Joint Interest Billing,
including calculating
mineral rights, Federal,
State and Local Taxes
Cost Accounting
Value-Added pricing for
Valve manufacturing units
Developed Global Pricing
models using econometric
and Statistical modeling.
Reviewed and entered into
contracts for International
and put together and
managed multifunctional
teams from 3 continents
and 5 countries.
managed the a large team
of about 100 internal as
well as external
consultants as well as
trained key players from
the functional verticals
during a SOX Audit for
ElPaso Corp.
Audits of international
subsidiaries to ensure
compliance with policy,
Professional Experience:
Please Note that the projects listed below are not all-inclusive.
Director, Professional Services and Business Development
NOWCFO, April 2014 – Present (15 Months), Houston Texas
-- Interim CFO for Start-ups as well as established small to midsize
companies. -- Team Lead for providing cost efficiency for companies
by streamlining their Accounting processes through the cost effective
use of our best resources coupled with latest technologies in the
accounting as well as back-office operations in the Energy trading
space. -- Systems integration and optimization for independents as
well as "Big Oil companies" for E&P operations at the well head level,
including JBI and contract evaluation. -- Help clients get compliant
with latest regulatory pronouncements while advising on optimizing
operational efficiencies.
PMO Lead and Advisor to the Economic Ministry of Oman
Aramco Consulting - ) June2013 – March 2014 (Contract)
Evaluated infrastructure (Water Purification; Water Desalination;
Alternative Energy; Highway development etc.)
Selected 3rd. party vendors and selected optimal teams for each
project in the portfolio.
Regularly communicated the progress of each project with Company
Executives and Government officials.
Closely managed the time/budgetary progress of each project to
maintain the required ROI.
Developed and managed project teams to streamline the financial
infrastructure by deploying new technology initiatives throughout the
region.
Evaluated infrastructure (Water Purification; Water Desalination;
Alternative Energy; Highway development etc.) Selected 3rd. party
vendors and selected optimal teams for each project in the
portfolio. Regularly communicated the progress of each project with
Company Executives and Government officials. Closely managed
the time/budgetary progress of each project to maintain the required
ROI.
Senior Consultant, Product Specialist, Strategic Services, - SME
Energy Americas
OpenLink Financial LLC., March 2011– April 2013 (25 Months),
Houston Texas
Techno-functional consulting on Endur v10 and v11 application.
Especially front-office (trading) and mid-office (risk) areas
Create new service offerings to extend the current business
Managed Junior Staff. Reviewed their work and worked on
performance evaluations
Techno-functional Implementation lead
Created and headed the QA team
Developed High Level and Low Level Estimates in response to
Clients’ RFPs for changes required to the core Endur and RightAngle
products to meet their business requirements (both near-term, as well
as data model extensions as an increase in upgrade and/or
2. Danial Khan , MBA Phone #: 713-294-2693
4950 Sugar Grove Blvd # 2502 Email: danialikhan@gmail.com
Stafford, TX 77477
Summary:
SME Energy Commodities,
Transportation (pipeline
Balancing, Storage (Salt
Dome, Pipeline, Sea-
bound), Rack Sales,
Trading (Structured
Physical), Basis Trades,
OTC Derivatives, Exchange
based deals (ICE, NYMEX,
CBOT)
Deal Capture Blotter
designs
Deal Capture Interfaces
with Exchanges for Traded
deals
Price Interfaces for Market
Price import from 3rd.
party services (LIMS,
Bloomberg, Platts, Argus,
Gas Daily etc.)
Nominations
Settlements
Invoicing
Internal Mentoring and
Training of junior staff
Developing Management
Proposal in response to
RFPs from Clients.
Developed HLE and LLE
templates to facilitate
client requested changes,
extensions and upgrades
to Endur and RightAngle
Strategic Business Process
Consulting, Gap Analysis,
consulting
Derivatives Accounting
(FAS 133, FAS 157, IFRS 9,
IAS 39, Dodd Frank etc.)
JIB Accounting, Technical
Accounting
Solutions Delivery and
Managing Business
Transformation
Interviewed and hired
Team members as well as
put together Global Teams
Professional Experience:
Managing Director/Founder Risk Matrics
Risk Matrics LLC. Sugar Land Texas Feb-2005 to March 2011(6
years)
Following are some examples of Projects Under Taken:
ACCENTURE
Project Team Lead for managing all facets of SolArc s11
implementation including developing Project Teams; writing
management proposals and designing interfaces for the
implementation plan
VALERO ENERGY SERVICES
Work closely with Allegro and TriplePoint teams for new
ETRM implementation.
Performed a lead liaison role between Business several
functional units such as wholesale marketing, Rack Sales,
Yield Accounting, and Front, Mid, back offices) and Technical
IT personnel.
Supported Trading Technology system.
INTERIM CRO, CORPORATE RISK AND BEST
PRACTICES,
CHICKASAW ENTERPRISES
Casino audit and process mapping in order to eliminate
bottlenecks and gain efficiencies.
Developed a Risk team to quantify and manage the portfolio
as well as individual casinos/entities
and functional verticals.
Evaluated enterprise-wide risk in a qualitative way order to
and quantify it to be able to run statistical simulations on
models that I created. Tried to instill a six-sigma approach for
best practices.
Managed to save the company over 3 million due to improved
operational efficiencies, better controls, and eliminating
operational work-flows using six sigma methodology. Also
trained the staff on such concepts.
Managed 9 employees – manager level down
Interacted with all departments including but not limited to
Operations, Accounting, Marketing, and HR etc.
MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT REFINERY P&L, SUPPLY
CHAIN MANAGEMENT
ABU DHABI NATIONAL OIL REFINERY
Outlined derivatives strategies. Back tested performance and
strategy as well as at portfolio level.
Worked with Operations, Engineering, and Document Control
to establish and maintain accurate Standard Project Costing
in the QAD system and accurate Product Cost Forecasts
using Excel modeling, including maintenance of all raw
material component costs, outside processing costs, direct
labor hours and direct labor rates, manufacturing yields,
feedstock inventories and overhead rates.
3. Danial Khan , MBA , PMP, working on CPA Phone #: 713-294-2693
4950 Sugar Grove Blvd # 2502 Email: danialikhan@gmail.com
Stafford, TX 77477
Computer Applications
(Functional):
OpenLink Endur
OpenLink RightAngle
PEOPLESOFT
ALLEGRO
TRIPLEPOINT
ROME CREDIT
RAFT INTERNATIONAL
PIMS
IMOS
Computer Applications
(TECHNICAL):
SQL; PL/SQL
VBA
EXCEL (ADVANCED):
o PIVOT TABLES
o V-LOOKUP
o H-LOOKUP
o MACROS
COMMODITIES:
POWER (INCLUDING GRID
CONGESTIONAL MODELING),
ISOs, RTOs, LDCs
NAT GAS (INCLUDING
TRANSMISSION, PIPELINE
OPERATIONS)
CRUDE (SWEET AND SOUR),
INCLUDING PIPELINE AND
SEA CARGOES, BALANCING,
TRANSMISSION etc.
OLEFINS
WEATHER DERIVATIVES
Professional Experience:
Developed product costs, delegated and reviewed product
costing tasks and assignments, and coordinated resources
and deadlines and applied extensive knowledge of refinery
utilization Structures, Refined product Routings, Refinery
yields, and Costing Programs.
Used a lot of cross-commodity relationships in the Analysis
for stress testing, and scenario analysis for management and
financial analysis.
Performed Asset Valuation by using linear and non-linear
Financial Optimization methods and Econometric Modeling.
Reviewed Asset holdings and recommended acquisition and
divestiture strategies to maximize Risk adjusted Portfolio
returns while securing Cash Flow stream above the
companies required ROI.
MANAGER, STRUCTURED PRODUCTS and FINANCIAL TRADING
MANAGER, MARKET AND CREDIT RISK
CONOCO, INC. – December 2001 to February 2005 (5 years 4 months)
Heavy involvement with Weather options, Nat. Gas, hourly, and long-
dated power deals.
Extensively involved putting together presentations on changing
electricity landscape in midst of ERCOT deregulation. This included
extensive study of California Power Markets, WACC, NWPP, PJM,
TVA, and SERC. Detailed study of NEMS macroeconomic modeling
as it pertains to electric utilities.
Work with development teams involved in software intended to
accurately measure and report Hedge contracts traded so as to
adhere with the regulation set forth by FAS 133 in conjunction with
back-office teams and mid-office manager.
Involved in extensive financial and statistical modeling, complex
energy trade evaluations and pricing as well as trading in Natural Gas
Liquids and other commodities (including capacity trading to achieve
optimal portfolio asset structure.
Structured (paper) Trader and managed 6 physical traders.
In five months have added $1.2 MM to the bottom line of the
company.
Developed a Propane supply/demand model in order to be able to
predict the propane stocks before the EIA statistics are released.
Implemented Riskwatch for Market and Credit Risk systems and
wrote several systems algorithms to calculate scenario tests and
stress tests on the portfolio including exotics. Designed and managed
integration with legacy deal capture systems.
Hourly to long dated power structured deal pricing.
Wholesale power and Nat. Gas contract evaluation for company
compliance.
Monitor Power, Nat. Gas, coal, metals, emissions and Weather trades
on a daily basis.
Report the Risk aggregation results to upper management.
Develop proprietary models to value cross-commodity trades and
exotic “off-system” options and financial exotics. Develop models for
measurement of DE@R, V@AR MC@R, CV@R, PFE numbers using
Matlab, Algorithmics’ RiskWatch, VB, and C using day-to-day tools
such as Excel and M.S. Power and Nat. Gas, and Weather.
4. Danial Khan , MBA Phone #: 713-294-2693
4950 Sugar Grove Blvd # 2502 Email: danialikhan@gmail.com
Stafford, TX 77477
Professional Experience:
Responsible for Daily MTM positions Reporting
Designed models for measuring risk on the long-dated power deals.
Involved to a large extent in setting up a risk and P&L reporting
process for the two parent companies.
Helped NGLs and Chemicals Groups change their process all the
way from deal origination to the back office activities, with a focus on
timely and accurate risk management process. This included
suggesting and implementing new risk measurement techniques,
especially for some of their deals in some illiquid markets. Leveraged
upon KHCs available resources to provide them with a robust Risk
management system. Maintained and updated the SolArc RightAngle
software used for refinery operations and deal entry/trading and
scheduling activities.
Developed a new Global Supply/Demand optimization model for the
NGLs and Aromatics in order to provide them with timely, proprietary
information. This model allows the analysts to manipulate the relevant
data to more accurately forecast the global supply/demand for the
plastics and feed stocks in a timely manner, and very accurately,
highlight any global arbitrage opportunities in the commodities
markets or simply freight-capacity trading. Some of the techniques
employed in developing such a model included optimization using
linear programming and shadow costing.
Helped NGLs and Chemicals Groups change their process all the
way from deal origination to the back office activities, with a focus on
timely and accurate risk management process. This included
suggesting and implementing new risk measurement techniques,
especially for some of their deals in some illiquid markets. Leveraged
upon KHCs available resources to provide them with a robust Risk
management system. Maintained and updated the SolArc RightAngle
software used for refinery operations and deal entry/trading and
scheduling activities.
Developed a new Global Supply/Demand optimization model for the
NGLs and Aromatics in order to provide them with timely, proprietary
information. This model allows the analysts to manipulate the relevant
data to more accurately forecast the global supply/demand for the
plastics and feed stocks in a timely manner, and very accurately,
highlight any global arbitrage opportunities in the commodities
markets or simply freight-capacity trading. Some of the techniques
employed in developing such a model included optimization using
linear programming and shadow costing.
SENIOR BUSINESS CONSULTANT (Risk Management)
TRANSENERGY MANAGEMENT Inc. / ALTRA ENERGY
TECHNOLOGIES Inc. June 1997 to October 1999 (28 Months)
Extensive work with several Utilities throughout the U.S.
Involved in all phases of client systems audit before initiating projects.
Consulted with regulated and unregulated clients to help determine
the optimal book structure for their gas and power trading operations.
Discussed re-engineering some of their business practices which
included setting up controls and limits at several levels and
segregating duties of some of their staff members in order to achieve
the best possible results.
Helped clients map their book structures; pipeline points; trading
zones/areas; indexes etc. to Transenergy’s RMS software.
Education/certifications:
Master of Business
Administration: Quantitative
Finance
RICE UNIVERSITY, Houston, TX
Bachelor of Science
Finance/Accounting
Stillwater, OK
Bachelor of Science
Management
Stillwater, OK
OpenLink University
5. Danial Khan , MBA , PMP, working on CPA Phone #: 713-294-2693
4950 Sugar Grove Blvd # 2502 Email: danialikhan@gmail.com
Stafford, TX 77477
Professional experience (cont):
SME Utility Operations
SME cross-commodity and
Market Analytics
SME NAT GAS and POWER
Aanalytics
Structured Trading
ETRM (Energy Trading and
Riosk Management
applications especially
OpenLink Financial’s Endur
and RightAngle, TriplePoint
Technologies, Allegro
Development
Quantitative Modeling
Global Econometric and
Statistical Modeling
“Big 4” and “Big 4” experience
Worked on Global projects and
in 3 different continents
Working on completing CPA,
ERP and FRM certifications
Very involved ion professional
local chapters
President of IMCs global ETRM
chapter
Market and Credit Risk
Modeling Management
Project Management
Business Development
LinkedIn profile:
www.linkedin.com/in/daniali
khan
Professional Experience (cont.)
COOPERS AND LYBRAND, LLP.., Oklahoma City
Staff Accountant, 06/1992 to 12/1994 (2 Years and 6 Months)
AR/AR, Full Cycle financials with a month end close
Assisted with client payroll (State and Federal, 941s, 10Qs, 10Ks etc.)
Provided financial consulting and independent and objective opinions
of value of business interests (i.e., equity, options, warrants) and
various mineral assets (Crude Oil, Natural Gas, coal etc.).
Primarily responsible for gathering and analyzing financial
information.
Specific responsibilities included researching financial and operating
data relating to due diligence for Mergers & Acquisition of small to
mid-size independents in the energy industry, prepared financial
analyses, wrote reports and participated in various client presentation
meetings.
Worked on tax issues related to M&As and divestitures.
C
COOPERS AND LYBRAND, LLP., Oklahoma City
Tax Analyst/Intern (Tax and Legal Services), summer 1990
Helped Tax Managers and associates in preparing company
financials and presentations on tax strategy.
Helped research Technical Accounting issues involving corporate
(Sub C, M&A) and flow-through entity (Sub K and S and LLC.)
taxation. Helped research some state, local and international taxation
issues.
ACCOUNTING SYSTEMS:
ERP SYSTEMS and DATABASES:
JD Edwards
Oracle
Access
SAP
Peachtree
MS Access
PeopleSoft
MAS 90
Hyperion (used for budgeting
ERP SYSTEMS and DATABASES:
JD Edwards
Oracle
Access
SAP
Peachtree
MS Access
ETRM SYSTEMS:
ENDUR, RIGHTANGLE, ALLEGRO, TRIPLE POINT OIL XL & CXL,
ASPECT ENTERPRISES, TRANSENERGY, ALTRA, ABACUS, ROME
CREDIT, RAFT CREDIT