Afoa has been a Chartered Accountant (CA) since 2004 (20 years), and still an active registered member of the Institute. She is now a Council Member for the Samoa Institute of Accountants since March 2023.
Afoa has worked for 17 years for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Samoa) Trust, which is the temporal affairs arm of the Church, responsible for Samoa and American Samoa. Currently, she’s serving as a Leader Support and Country Manager for the past 7 years and prior to that, she was the Finance Manager for the same organization for 10 years. She is also the Chairwoman for the Board of Trustees of the Church of Jesus Christ (Samoa) Trust
Before working for the church, she was a public servant for 10 years in various departments which included Customs, Inland Revenue, Audit Office and then Treasury Department. She worked for an international organization as Finance Manager for 3 years before joining church employment.
Afoa has been an member of the Board of Directors for the Development Bank of Samoa for 8 years (2012 to 2020) and currently serving as an effective Board Director for the Samoa Shipping Services for the last 4 years (2020 to date). She vehemently serves and continues her service to government through her responsibilities as a board member.
As a senior executive of more than 15 years, she has sizable experience in financial management, internal and external auditing, corporate management, budgeting, financial analyst, project management, human resource management and relationship development and superb customer service and loves to build relationships of trust with people.