Will Guardado, CPA
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About Me
I’m a product manager at FloQast for the Reporting business unit. In other words, I help build software for accountants. I was an accountant. I am still one at my core. I know the late nights, the missed family dinners, the working weekends needed to meet the tight timelines of every busy period. I feel very invested in finding solutions to solve this.
At FloQast, my role has been to shape the product with deep technical accounting expertise, making sure what we ship solves the close-process problems finance teams actually face. Today one of the areas I lead is the AI development for the unit, focused on the reporting workflows where AI can replace multi-step work rather than just narrate around it.
Eleven years at PwC and two years owning public-company financial reporting at Lifetime Brands taught me how varied and complex the reporting domain is, and how much room there is for it to be better. AI is what I think will get it there. I’m not watching that change from the sidelines. I’m one of the people behind it.
Experience
Product manager for the Reporting business unit, partnering with engineering, design, and accounting subject-matter experts on the Record-to-Report product line. Currently leading AI development across the unit, including an automated Rule Mapping engine for data ingestion and the Flux Explanation Agent, an LLM-powered first-pass variance analysis tool built to address the variance explanation bottleneck.
I owned the Financial Reporting and Technical Accounting functions at a publicly listed consumer products company. The work included drafting 10-K, 10-Q, and Form 4 filings end to end, running the monthly close for the operating-expense section of the income statement, and owning the company’s accounting policy on new standards, legal matters, and goodwill impairment. I also presented financial insights to executive stakeholders, translating complex data into actionable strategy.
Eleven years at PwC, ending as a Director in Capital Markets & Advisory. I’m a recovering auditor. I led audits and advised multinational clients on technical accounting, M&A, and finance transformations, with engagement teams behind transactions valued in the billions, including industrial conglomerate divestitures, large-scale consolidation system implementations at top-tier insurers, and ASC 606 revenue-recognition transformations across multiple sectors. The largest teams I ran included more than twenty people across technical accounting and systems implementation, with on-site work in Europe and Asia. Throughout, I was the day-to-day point of contact for the CFO, CAO, and SVP-level leadership.
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More of My Story
I was born in Jayaque, a small town in El Salvador, in the middle of a civil war. By the time I was nine, my family had left. My parents arrived in New York first; I followed. New York is where I learned English, finished school, found my career, and married my wife.
Two things in college shaped what I do now. The first was a job I took while in school where I learned to write Visual Basic and SQL. I was hooked on what software could do. The second was the choice I made after graduating: I traded that code for another kind, the US GAAP codification, and started at PwC. It would take fifteen years for those two threads to come back together.
Outside of work, I love music. I’ve played the keyboard since high school and still play some weekends at my church. My wife and I also love to spend time in our home country El Salvador. We love the people, the food, and the beautiful and chaotic atmosphere. The country I left at nine has its own pull, and I’m still mapping it.