Background

Christiana Antwi-Obimpeh is a doctoral candidate in the Carlos Alvarez College of Business at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Christiana is primarily interested in archival research focusing on social factors that impact the audit market and stakeholders, including audit quality, independence, whistleblowing, fraud, corporate misreporting, corporate governance, and emerging technology. Christiana is a licensed Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in the state of Ohio, and a Certified Management Accountant. She has over ten years of professional experience in corporate accounting and consolidations, financial planning and analysis, cost accounting, internal audit, and public accounting. Prior to her doctoral studies, Christiana worked as a Principal Accounting Analyst for The Timken Company (a global manufacturer of bearings and power transmission products) and an Adjunct Accounting Instructor at Walsh University in North Canton, Ohio. Christiana holds a Master of Business Administration and Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting and Finance (summa cum laude) from Kent State University. She is an AICPA Minority Doctoral fellow, a Deloitte Foundation/ J. Michael Cook Doctoral Consortium fellow, and a member of The PhD Project’s Accounting Doctoral Student Association. She also represented the American Accounting Association as the U.S. representative to the European Accounting Association Doctoral Colloquium in 2023. Christiana maintains professional membership with the American Institute of Public Accountants (AICPA), Institute of Management Accountants (IMA), Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), and the American Accounting Association (AAA).

Job experience

• August 2017 - August 2019
  Principal Accountant/ Corporate Accounting and Global Consolidations
  The Timken Company
  

  North Canton, OH, USA

   Served as lead finance liaison for two organization-wide integration projects for newly
  acquired entities ($100 and $60 million in annual sales)
   Served as assistant project lead for ASC 842 lease accounting software integration project
   Performed general accounting functions, including journal entries, balance sheet
  reconciliations, SEC filings, and period-close global consolidation tasks

• April 2016 - August 2017
  Principal Financial Analyst/ Product Management
  The Timken Company
  

  North Canton, OH, USA

   Managed over $135 million in capital expenditures through monthly forecasting and analysis
   Served as finance project lead for $58 million new facility construction and startup in Romania
   Provided financial guidance and support to engineering teams’ global capital projects

• April 2012 - April 2016
  Senior Auditor/ Internal Audit
  The Timken Company
  

  North Canton, OH, USA

   Developed data analytics scripts and testing procedures for the procure-to-pay process and
  anti-bribery/ anti-corruption (FCPA) compliance
   Executed control effectiveness reviews for financial (SOX), operational, compliance, and
  strategic audits
   Coordinated external audit direct assistance and co-sourcing efforts with third-party firms,
  including progress reporting and review of test plans and working papers

• August 2010 - April 2012
  Senior Audit Associate
  PricewaterhouseCoopers
  

  Cleveland, OH, USA

  - Performed high-risk audit procedures and internal control (Sarbanes-Oxley 404) testing, focusing on publicly-traded real estate, manufacturing, and financial services clients
  - Provided daily coaching to four interns and nine associates and reviewed testing performed
  - Remotely coordinated physical inventory observations and subsequent documentation nationwide
  - Assessed the validity and clarity of clients' annual financial statements
  - Tracked budget-to-actual progress and prepared analysis for client billing process

• July 2008 - August 2010
  Staff Auditor
  Ernst & Young
  

  Cleveland, OH, USA

  - Performed audit procedures of private and public companies and non-profit organizations
  - Completed bankruptcy-related audit procedures in accordance with U.S. Bankruptcy Code
  - Assisted in A-133 federal compliance audits for non-profit organizations

Education

• The University of Texas at San Antonio
  PhD Accounting
  

  2019 - 2024
• Kent State University
  MBA
  

  2013 - 2015

  Executive MBA
• Kent State University
  BBA, Accounting and Finance
  

  2004 - 2008

  Summa cum laude distinction

• Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
  Accountancy Board of Ohio
  CPA.46867
  

  - present
• Certified Management Accountant (CMA)
  Institute of Management Accountants
  8533380
  

  - present