Aj Guido

About Aj Guido

I am passionate about creating impactful solutions to complex and urgent business needs, acting as a business partner to senior leadership, and working with and on high-performing teams.With fifteen years of domestic and international consulting, corporate finance, controllership, and accounting experience, I have been fortunate to have a variety of experiences across a range of professional services firms. Whether it was in my role as a Manager at A&M, Consultant at ZS, Finance Manager and Assistant Controller at McKinsey, or Finance Manager, I have successfully brought my unique combination of technical and interpersonal/people skills to deliver material impact for my organizations and clients, create lasting change, improve oversight and performance, and build and grow teams.Outside of work, I enjoy spending time with my wife and two children, following sports (most recently, the NY Knicks have me reliving my childhood,) cooking, running, and trying to become decent at golf-Functional Expertise: Cross-functional, cross-cultural, and international collaboration and management; trust-based and people-first people leadership, relationship building, and client service; managing, building, mentoring, and coaching effective teams; creative, proactive, and analytical problem solving; resourcefulness; fast learner; ambitious goal setting and achieving; senior stakeholder management and influencing; financial modeling; controllership; policy creation and compliance; and project and program management.

Experience

1. Manager

   Alvarez & Marsal

   Jan 2024 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Designed and presented findings from a complicated multi-scenario data model estimating every U.S. insurance carrier’s state guaranty associations’ assessment from a hypothetical national long-term care insurer insolvencyDeveloped Purchase GAAP analysis of and presentation on assumptions across all iterations of defendant’s opening balance sheets, acting as a pillar of client’s legal argument and the foundation of several depositionsDirected A&M’s expert report and rebuttal report in support of engagement by: identifying impactful discovery documents; developing case-supporting arguments; executing intricate financial analyses; drafting key content; overseeing team members’ contributions; and leading quality control and source documentationManaged complex multi-year multi-client litigation and insolvency/restructuring engagement, leading weekly calls, producing weekly discovery review productivity report, and handling all billing and collections

Education

• Villanova University

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Accounting and Business Honors

  2006 — 2010

• Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

  Master of Business Administration - MBA, Economics, Finance, and Strategy

Skills

• Us Gaap
• Financial Accounting
• Team Building
• Accounting Research
• Corporate Finance
• External Audit
• Oracle
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Office
• Cpa
• Assurance
• Auditing
• Big 4
• Microsoft Word
• Financial Modeling
• Access