FP&A Today
FP&A Today
Glenn Hopper
Packed insights for Excel in FP&A: Jeff Gudim
50 minutes Posted Jun 8, 2025 at 11:05 am.
0:00
50:47
Download MP3
Show notes
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 changeHow to convince your team to use advanced ExcelCompletely new favorite Excel function or featureConnect with Jeff Gudim on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-gudim-7a994546/