Asia Hasan

I provide audit and assurance services to clients, which is really important right now with a lot of these players trying to go public through IPOs and SPACs. Making sure their financial statements are credentialized by someone that works at a big four accounting firm becomes really critical in that process for those companies to go public successfully. It's really upholding the capital markets and making sure that ecosystem holds together and has that level of credibility. My role at this stage in my career is managing a large group of individuals that help me get to the goals that my clients need. My work is all client-facing and very client service driven. I help structure out project plans for my teams, but I also am almost a trusted advisor for my clients. In complex transactions and complex accounting matters, that's when I come in and help provide expertise there, rather than the day-to-day work of just getting through the auditing. My role now is more strategic in that sense. I'm also a mom of two, and I'm navigating an industry that is very much heavily male-driven. It is a bit of a boys club when you think about traditional financial services and asset managers, and then also just the whole crypto AI space. Carving myself out and making sure that I have value that I'm bringing to the table kind of all plays into that, and balancing work and life and all of that plays a lot into my day and my outlook.