Abby Eldridge

Abby Eldridge is a Managing Director on the Transactions team at FTI Consulting, based in New York. Ms. Eldridge brings a decade of experience in public accounting, interim management and forensic consulting. She has served as the project leader across engagements in the financial services, biosciences, pharmaceutical, home services and manufacturing/distribution industries.

Ms. Eldridge has managed a wide range of engagements, including interim management, accounting investigations, cash-to-accrual conversions, finance and accounting integrations and internal control implementations. She served as interim finance and accounting management at a garage door services company, where she successfully navigated the company through two Big Four audits and its subsequent sale to private equity. In this role, she implemented structured monthly close processes and established the financial planning and analysis (“FP&A”) function, incorporating weekly KPI reporting and the development of the annual budget.

Ms. Eldridge also spearheaded the integration of six physician practice acquisitions for a private equity-backed medical services organization. She served as Interim Controller and provided comprehensive accounting and finance integration services, including preparing purchase accounting entries, developing 13-week cash flow forecasts and implementing monthly close processes, reporting, budgeting and audit support. Additionally, she designed an integration playbook to transition integration responsibilities from FTI Consulting to the practice finance teams, enhancing operational efficiency.

Most recently, Ms. Eldridge operated as Head of Finance at a pharmaceutical transport company, where she led the annual budgeting process and developed a five-year strategic business plan. Her contributions included building revenue contract models, conducting detailed expense analyses and creating a sophisticated pricing model. She also developed board deck templates and other high-impact financial analyses. Beyond her corporate finance expertise, Ms. Eldridge has worked on numerous damage calculations and expert reports across multiple industries, preparing expert witnesses for depositions and trial testimony.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting in October 2018, Ms. Eldridge spent four years in the audit practice at EisnerAmper LLP, where she led and participated in more than a dozen public and private company audits and played a key role in executing a multiyear restatement.