Ms Scott won the Southern Young Executive of the Year Award earlier this month and will compete for the nationwide prize in November in Auckland.
Ms Scott is the managing director of BTW South, a Cromwell-based environmental planning and surveying firm.
She founded the company with Kathryn Hooper and Mike Borthwick in 2007 and has not looked back, she said.
''It's gone really well,'' Ms Scott said.
''We have had substantial growth. In six years we have gone from two to 12 employees.
''We have had a significant increase in turnover in that time as well.''
Ms Scott relocated from Taranaki to Central Otago with her husband Scott Levings in 2006 to work on her family's dairy farm in Ettrick.
She and her husband worked the farm for a year, before they moved to Alexandra.
While working on the farm she ''was still doing a bit of contracting work for my previous employer and getting busier and busier'', she said.
''I saw the opportunity for myself to open a business.''
It was her background and her team's knowledge of the rural sector which had seen the business become so successful, she said.
The 32-year-old is the only female among the national finalists.
But that did not faze her, she said.
''The only barriers are the ones you perceive,'' she said.
''Most often it comes back to what you believe you can achieve.''
It had been ''pretty humbling to get to his point and find you are doing well,'' she said.
''It was pretty exciting to be involved and to win is a pretty good achievement.''
Ms Scott was earlier this year named as the feasibility study project manager for the Manuherikia Catchment Water Strategy Group and is also kept busy at home by her 2-year-old son George.
''Living with a 2-year-old can be fun, but it has it's challenges,'' she said.
''I have to take a back seat at home. He's the boss.''
- Timothy Brown.