Mary Jo Grimsley

Mary Jo is a Senior Accountant at Puryear & Noonan CPAs, where she has been part of the team since 2020. She specializes in handling complex and detailed bookkeeping, often taking on challenging sets of books that require patience, accuracy, and a strong understanding of accounting transactions. Mary Jo finds great satisfaction in turning complicated situations into successful outcomes, and she is especially energized by helping new clients who may have had negative experiences with prior firms. For her, providing a positive outcome and peace of mind to clients is the most rewarding part of the job.

What Mary Jo values most about P&N is the culture—employees are recognized as essential to the firm’s success, and the partners work alongside their teams with approachability and support. This collaborative environment makes it easy for her to focus on what she loves most: pleasing clients and delivering results they can trust.

Mary Jo began her career in banking before moving into bookkeeping roles in industries including construction and retail. She also served as a collections officer for a local government in Minnesota before relocating to Tennessee. Now based in Spring Hill, she enjoys being closer to two of her children and their families.

Outside of work, Mary Jo’s happiest moments are spent with her children and grandchildren. She also enjoys reading, helping her husband refinish furniture, and creating new memories with her large extended family—a fun fact is that both she and her husband are next-to-youngest siblings in families of nine.