Melody Advisory Leadership

Jennie Wallace, MS, CPA, CISA, CGMA

Founder & Principal, Melody Advisory

About Jennie

Jennie Wallace has nearly 30 years of experience bringing clarity to complexity through her extensive background across finance, accounting, operations, IT, strategy, risk, audit, and controls. Her cross-functional expertise makes her unique among business advisors.

How Jennie works

Jennie is known for her ability to quickly understand how work moves through an organization, where it breaks down, and the root causes. She then repairs broken workflows at the source, strengthens controls, and builds clean, scalable processes that restore accuracy and stability.

Jennie is hands-on, detail-oriented, practical, and implementation-focused. She works alongside teams to implement solutions that actually work the way your business does. Her style is calm, collaborative, and supportive, with a touch of humor to help keep teams grounded as clarity emerges.

Why organizations hire her

Jennie offers what usually requires multiple specialists: deep process expertise, financial and operational acumen, systems fluency, and risk and controls knowledge, all in one advisor. She brings order to complex environments and builds structures that last.

Why she started Melody Advisory

Jennie started Melody Advisory because she believes organizations deserve clarity, strong processes, and support they can trust. The firm’s work provides clients with structure and confidence so that they can focus on doing their best work, not on fighting the process.

Jennie Wallace, founder and principal of Melody Advisory, operational consulting firm based in New York

More about Jennie

    • Process improvement & workflow (re)design

    • Operational cleanup & systems integration

    • Finance & operational transformation

    • Risk management & internal controls

    • Data clarity, compliance, & efficiency

    • Clear, sustainable, scalable processes

    • Strong controls

    • Reliable data

    • Fewer fire drills

    • Teams that thrive, not just survive

    • Master’s in enterprise risk management | St. John’s University

    • Bachelor’s in accounting and CIS | Bryant University

    • Certified Public Accountant (NY)

    • Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)

    • Chartered Global Mgmt. Accountant (CGMA)