Packed insights for Excel in FP&A: Jeff Gudim
Jun 08, 2025•51 min•Ep. 162
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Episode description
This episode is 53 minutes packed with practical Excel insights for an FP&A practitioner and Excel advocate at the top of his game.
Jeff Gudim is a senior financial analyst, Excel evangelist and hardcore financial model architect at Strategic Education, listed on the NASDAQ and which owns for-profit, online Capella University and Strayer University, Jeff made the leap from private wealth management to corporate FP&A, leveraging his financial planning skills and Excel skills rising up as a data-driven problem solver. Jeff leads forecasting and analysis for a hundred million dollars IT function.
In this episode
- Getting from private wealth management to FP&A
- How Excel jumpstarted my career
- My favorite ever Excel model
- Monte Carlo simulations
- 3 time saving tips every FP&A professional needs
- Dynamic arrays and Lambda functions and “fundamental” Excel change
How to convince your team to use advanced Excel
Completely new favorite Excel function or feature
Connect with Jeff Gudim on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-gudim-7a994546/
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