Şükrü Gönül graduated in Ankara, Faculty of Economics and Commercial Sciences in the academic year 1980-1981. First he worked as an accountant in the Karadeniz Yağlı Tohumlar Tarım Satış Birliği from 1983 to 1987, then as CFO and then as Assistant General Manager in Ordu Yağ Sanayi AŞ from 1987 to 1997.

He served as an auditor and reporter in a CPA firm between 1997 and 2009. He serves as the Director in Moore Turkey, Black Sea Regional Office since 2009.