Ayesha Bawany

About Ayesha Bawany

Technical accounting and finance leader with 15 years in public company environments — the kind of work where the filing has to be right, the auditors need to trust you, and the judgment calls have to hold up under scrutiny.PwC-trained across large, complex public technology companies: SEC filings, SOX, revenue recognition, lease accounting, equity compensation, and the technical accounting questions that don’t have easy answers. At SoundHound AI, operating as the technical accounting authority for a publicly traded AI company — directing the close, owning complex GAAP judgments, building audit-ready frameworks from scratch, and managing the external audit relationship across all significant areas.What’s unusual: a finance background deep enough to own the hard accounting questions, combined with enough operational fluency to work directly inside engineering and infrastructure organizations — and translate between the two without losing rigor on either side.What I care about beyond the work: I think a lot about what it means to build AI systems responsibly — not just efficiently. I\'ve written about the gap between financial disclosure infrastructure and the interpretive capacity needed to use it, and about what it means to raise children in a world where AI knows more about them than they know about themselves.

Experience

1. Corporate Accounting Director

   SoundHound AI

   Oct 2024 — Present

Education

• University of Karachi

  Bachelors