Akyianu completed her secondary school education at Wesley Girls' Senior High School in Cape Coast, the capital of the Central Region (Ghana).
[5] Akyianu started work at Standard chartered bank as a financial controller.
She rose to the position of chief financial officer (CFO) in the South African office of the Standard chartered bank, Africa regional operations.
[6] Akyianu was named finance CEO of the year at the third Ghana CFO awards in 2017.
[9] She was awarded the Nobles International Award (2013), Africa Female Economic Champion-Banking (Centre for Economic & Leadership Development (CELD)-2014), and was inducted into Global Women Leaders Hall of Fame (CELD- 2014) and Woman of Excellence in Finance (Ghana CFO Awards 2015).