Sheharyar Khan, CFA
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
Management Consulting Expert
Al Khobar, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
Toptal member since August 12, 2020
Sheharyar is a performance-driven M&A professional with excellent organizational, analytical, and cross-cultural project management skills. He has analyzed over $5 billion and closed regional and international M&A, portfolio divestments, and capital-raising transactions. Two of the landmark transactions of his career are the listing of an entity on the Stock Exchange and the acquisition of the largest MENA OFS company. Sheharyar is currently working on a major energy transition project at KSA.
Career Highlights
Education Highlights
Certification Highlights
Case Studies
Valuation Analysis
Distressed Company Valuation
Valuation of an Early-stage Service Company
Micro Attribution Analysis
Startup Valuation, Convertible Note, and Share Dilution Modeling
Industry Expertise
- Energy, Utilities & Waste
- Electricity, Oil & Gas
- Investment Banking
- Financial Modeling
- Startups
- Renewable Energy
Other Expertise
- Board Decks
- Equity Valuation
- Financial Analysis
- Investments
- Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)
- Portfolio Performance Management
- Private Company Valuation
Work Experience
Senior Manager, Corporate Development
TAQA Saudi Arabia
- Worked as the PMO listing Arabian Drilling in the Saudi Exchange to raise over $700 million through ECM transactions.
- Involved in raising Sukuk transactions (DCM transactions) of over $500 million for Arabian Drilling.
- Integrated a large-scale MENA acquisition focused on oil field services.
- Established a capital allocation framework to focus investments on return-maximizing opportunities.
- Collaborated in an energy transition project for geothermal energy.
Corporate Development Specialist
TAQA Saudi Arabia
- Analyzed over $5 billion of acquisition transactions in oilfield service companies to address technology and service gaps in the company's portfolio.
- Played a key role in cross-border acquisitions across the globe, including MENA, North America, UK, Europe, China, and India.
- Led the deal process and all the cross-functional teams involved in cross-border M&As, joint ventures, and divestitures from start to finish, focusing on best practices and continuous improvement.
- Created investment recommendations and transaction materials and presented reports to senior executives and the board of directors.
- Developed and maintained the deal pipeline by actively looking at M&A, JV, and alliance arrangements.
Senior Financial Analyst
Rashed Al Rashed
- Introduced micro performance attribution analysis, helping to improve the understanding of investment performance relative to benchmarks and identify areas of improvement in asset allocation and security selection to optimize performance.
- Built financial models for company valuation, financial analysis, and scenario analysis to forecast the performance of the investment portfolio under various scenarios.
- Developed investment criteria for filtering private equity investments. The filtration criteria were used to concentrate investments toward profitable ventures.
- Profiled risk for the whole portfolio and suggested risk-reducing mechanisms to enhance the risk-adjusted return on assets.
- Developed a currency loss report and determined breakeven points for devising exit strategies in foreign markets.
- Hedged foreign currency risks with minimization of exposure to specific countries and netting off payables and deposits.
- Developed reports for analyzing the portfolio in terms of strategic and tactical asset allocation and sector, geographic, and currency exposure on a weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual basis.
Financial Analyst
Bahri & Mazroei Group
- Shifted the portfolio allocation from a conservative to a balanced approach and covered portfolio losses while generating a risk-adjusted return on capital of 6-8%.
- Contributed to the valuation, due diligence, and negotiations for the acquisition of ICT Company and the establishment of a joint venture with a media company.
- Developed a financial model for the project status report, which was used to monitor and analyze individual project performance across the group and was an essential tool for capital budgeting and financial reporting.
- Arranged funds of $100 million for the construction of mixed-use buildings and the acquisition of land and off-plan properties.
- Developed Excel-based financial models for the valuation of investments using NPV, IRR, DCF, relative valuation, and free cash flow techniques.
Education
Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Entrepreneurship
HEC Paris - Paris, France
Bachelor's Degree in Applied Accounting
Oxford Brookes University - Oxford, UK
Certifications
Lead like a CEO: Entrepreneurial Leadership & Innovation
Babson College
Certificate in Financial Modeling
LEORON Institute
Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)
CFA Institute
ACCA
UK Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
Skills
Finance
P&L Forecasting, Valuation, Financial Modeling, Equity Valuation, Private Company Valuation, DCF Valuation, Investment Portfolio Management, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Forecasting, Revenue & Expense Projections, Fundraising, Portfolio Analysis, Market Research, Financial Accounting, Due Diligence, Convertible Debt, Financial Model Auditing
Industry Expertise
Oil & Gas, Energy, Renewable Energy
Output Software
Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint
Other
Financial Analysis, Portfolio Performance Management, Relative Valuation, Corporate Development, Carve-out Analysis, Scenario Analysis, Performance Attribution, Family Office, Investments, Investment Analysis, Pitch Deck Consultant, Distressed Assets, Startups, Board Decks, Strategy Development, Portfolio Optimization, Pitch Decks, SAP ERP, Business Planning, Performance Analysis, Portfolio Management, Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Management, Leadership, Design Thinking, Blue Ocean
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