Shawna

"I honestly was one of those people who had no idea what I wanted to do in life."

"We have almost 600 people at our campus. We manufacture Air Products. So primary roles and responsibilities have to do with ensuring that we have proper accounting controls"

"I am constantly trying to look for what's due tomorrow. What's due later this week? What's due next month?"

"at the end of the day my role is to make sure that what people intend to do are being translated properly in the financials and vice versa."

"I really enjoy the impact that I'm having."

"Constantly trying to figure out what is important versus what is urgent is the biggest challenge."

"The cool facts that I learned about different parts of Aerospace."

"It takes people who can appreciate the legacy and also build on it in a prudent way."

"you're never going to know what your day looks like when you first start planning it and that's okay."

"So there's a lot of entry points into Finance and accounting and they might not have really sexy titles."

"People really really are critically important. Building the relationships, building the trust, understanding how you come across, asking for feedback and doing good proper listening to understand where a person is really coming from."

"Having to work during the day and get schooled at night and on weekends really helped me hone my prioritization skills and multitasking skills."

"I have learned that there are there still are old stereotypes that again. I wasn't aware of in the beginning and how to try to navigate those."