Nili Shah is a Deputy Chief Accountant in the Division of Corporation Finance’s Office of Chief Accountant. Her responsibilities include oversight of financial reporting matters affecting SEC registrants as well as the formulation of Division policies regarding financial reporting and disclosure by public companies. Prior to this role, she spent over four years in the Commission’s Office of the Chief Accountant, working on registrant consultations, following standard setting, and assisting with special projects under both U.S. GAAP and IFRS. She has also served as an accounting branch chief in the Division of Corporation Finance.
Prior to joining the Commission in 2004, Shah spent eight years with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, most recently as a senior manager in London, U.K, assisting European companies with adoption of IFRS and accounting, auditing, and regulatory issues associated with capital-raising transactions in the U.S.
Shah graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in Business Administration, with a major in accounting and a minor in French, from Washington University in St. Louis. She is a Certified Public Accountant in Missouri and a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Charterholder.