Kasra Saad, Ph.D, ACMA, CPA, CGMA

Experience

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  Shell EP International Ltd

  Feb 2002 - Sept 2016

  • Establish compliant financial control framework, including SOX compliance• Significant valuable exposure through enormous business engagements with leadership team and make constructive challenges in driving value to multi billion Dollars projects• Create value for business by finance processes risks identification and mitigations (processes include revenue, requisition to pay, fixed assets, contracts, treasury, etc.)• Good business understanding and contributors to strategy development and execution• Lead Six Sigma project on MI efficiency and certified as Greenbelt• Lead organization Risk Management Process as a critical step to unlock values• Lead Business Control Incident process including investigations and dissemination of learnings with a focus on root cause analysis in preparation of fraud prevention• Custodian of the Corporate Management System which clarifies the big picture of how our business is organized• Organize Country Business Assurance Committees , coordinate Annual Business Assurance letter and Annual Assurance Plan with a risk based approach• Analyzed Financial Statement to insure account integrity Show less • Developed the whole finance processes including fixed assets, revenue, payments, inventory etc.• Managed all aspects of financial reporting, consolidation and forecasting as well as internal and external audits.• Rolled out risk based Sox compliant financial control framework in 6 countries• Custodian of Finance processes including pro-active drive for finance process efficiency and standardization in onshore and offshore organizations• Directed and managed Controller’s activities including accounting department activities to optimize delivery, quality and risk coverage.• Direct and manage activities to ensure an adequate control framework and controls, incl. up-to-date SOX documentation underpins all changes in ventures and/or processes.• Lead ad hoc projects assigned by Regional Controller Show less

  • Governance, Risk and Assurance Manager

    Jan 2012 - Sept 2016

  • Controller- Finance Controls Lead

    Apr 2006 - Dec 2011

  • Accounting Leader

    Jan 2005 - Mar 2006

  • Finance Manager

    Feb 2002 - Dec 2004
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  Marathon Oil Corporation

  Jun 2017 - May 2022

  Financial Controls Lead
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  University of Houston-Downtown

  Dec 2019 - now

  Adjunct Faculty
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  J.P. Morgan

  May 2022 - now

  Vice President