Shawnea Ajao

About Shawnea Ajao

Results-driven Finance and Accounting Executive Leader with extensive experience and accomplishments spanning senior management, Finance, Audit, Technical Accounting, Internal Controls, FP & A, Manufacturing, Financial Statements and Reporting within industry-leading organizations. Well-renowned for strategically leveraging resources—people, processes, systems, and over two decades of proven amassed knowledge—to deliver precise, efficient, excellent, comprehensive financial solutions. Adept at translating financial insights into actionable strategies that support and fuel organizational growth, operational efficiency, and long-term enterprise value creation.Expert in complex accounting, GAAP, M&A, E&O, reconciling billion-dollar accounts, optimizing financial operations, scenario modeling, integrating robust automated agile financial systems, and providing C-Suite with critical, data-driven insights that shape corporate strategies and guide strategic decision-making that leads to wins. Skilled at navigating fast-paced, intense, multi-project environments with competing high priorities, while consistently delivering accurate, timely, and excellent financials, forecasts, budgets, reports, and analyses that gives a pulse on the business.Proven leader and trusted advisor, with a strong track record of managing large-scale audits, preparing detailed complex work papers, and ensuring compliance with GAAP, Sarbanes-Oxley, SEC, and FEC regulations. Experienced in processing, overseeing, developing daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, annual cash and asset reconciliations, along with identifying, solutioning and resolving exceptions promptly through innovation.Possessing a deep understanding of financial laws and regulations, with a focus on operational finance—optimizing processes, controlling costs, creating efficient workflows and robust controls, increasing SKUs, cashflows, company margins. Skilled in developing strategic financial plans, supporting business initiatives, advising executive leadership.Highly motivated, business-savvy, apt professional committed to continuous life-long learning—pursuing CMA, MBA, and MSA courses—and leveraging advanced Excel skills such as PivotTables, VLOOKUPs, and SUMIF to enhance financial data analyses.Driven by deep passions and pursuit of excellence, I am a hands-on, results-oriented leader, and collaborative peer, constantly building high-functioning, high-value Teams, and Businesses, while seeking opportunities to learn, quickly grow, and contribute to organizational successes in dynamic, high-stakes environments.

Experience

1. CFO Leadership Council

   Cfo Leadership Council

   Jul 2023 — Present · Boston, MA, US

Education

• Questrom School of Business, Boston University

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Finance & Operations Management