Maria Zitoli

Maria Zitoli, CPA, CMA, CCEP is a seasoned finance and compliance leader with over 30 years of experience, including senior roles at Johnson & Johnson. She specializes in financial operations, compliance, and process improvement, helping organizations strengthen controls, improve reporting, and gain clear financial visibility.

Maria has led high-impact initiatives, including implementing compliance frameworks and optimizing financial systems. As a recent consulting engagement, she redesigned a manual reporting process using Excel—reducing a four-day weekly task to just one day by building streamlined workflows and automated formulas, delivering significant time savings and efficiency gains. She particularly enjoys leveraging Excel to simplify processes and create practical, scalable solutions.

Now a fractional CFO and advisor, Maria partners with growing businesses on financial cleanups, reporting improvements, and scalable processes—bringing structure, clarity, and efficiency to their operations.