Daniel Johnson

Experience

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  US Army

  Sept 1992 - Jun 1999

  Sergeant

  Supervised six-man team in the deployment and operation of a tactical digital telephone switch.Led and mentored soldiers on operation of tactical communication equipment, marksmanship, physical fitness, and military bearing.

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  WorldCom

  Apr 1999 - Jun 2002

  Central Office Engineer

  Managed floor space and power in telecommunication facilities in North and Central Florida.Participated in the planning and design of new construction and facility expansion projects.Assigned rack space to system architecture engineering for new transmission, multiplexing, switching and midrange equipment installations.Monitored facility power plant to ensure that adequate power distribution capacity existed to meet current and future load demands.

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  PricewaterhouseCoopers

  Sept 2008 - Jun 2009

  Senior Associate, Assurance

  Experience with filings of multiple Fortune 500 clients, including Form 10Ks, 8Ks and 10Qs, as well as S-4s and comfort letters.Supervised up to six associates during the audit of a Fortune 500 Oil and Gas Master Limited Partnership to ensure that audit procedures were performed and documented in accordance with PCAOB (Sarbanes Oxley), GAAS, and firm standards.Participated in the planning, controls testing, substantive testing, and completion of the audit of a Fortune 500 company with three SEC registrants and approximately 20 standalone audits.Prepared semimonthly engagement team budget to actual comparison to include monitoring and reporting on budget overruns.Performed research of PCAOB, FASB, and FERC regulatory accounting s as needed to obtain greater understanding of issues that arose during testingGained team building and management skills, as well as extensive technical skills related to oil and gas accounting (successful efforts) and recent accounting pronouncements.Led audits of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Interstate Natural Gas Pipeline Form 2 filings. Show less

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  Direct Energy

  Jun 2009 - now

  Internal Audit Manager

  Led multiple teams in the planning, testing, and reporting of audits on financial, operational, and compliance processes, simultaneously in a geographically diverse landscape including Tulsa, Toronto, Pittsburgh, Houston, Calgary, as well as Dublin, Ireland; London, England and Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.Executed risk based audits reports in accordance with COSO Internal Control - Integrated Framework. Delivered high quality internal audit reports and effectively communicated findings and their impact on the company to all levels of management. Evaluated company risk, developed an audit universe, prioritized risk areas and began development of rotational audit plans for an IFRS registrant focused in upstream exploration and production, trading and retail power and gas. Performed enterprise-wide risk assessments and provided guidance in the establishment of effective monitoring.Participated in special projects to provide transparency between the company’s risk management process and the validation of the company’s internal controls by mapping the organization process-level controls to enterprise level risks.Served as the North American internal audit repository application’s systems administrator and primary new employee methodology training facilitator.Acted as a coach/mentor to new and less experienced staff by providing direction and feedback on how to plan their audits and what key stakeholders to engage, how to set-up their testing templates, how to follow-up on testing errors and identify an exception; how to perform a root cause analysis and capture the real issue, and how to document in a report and effectively communicate a finding to Management. Show less