Enzo Garza
Founder, CEO & Automation Nerd
Enzo is the founder of Accounting Prose, a fully remote FinOps as a Service firm built for founders who want to grow without losing control of their numbers. The firm gives fast-growing startups a full-stack finance team, fractional, proactive, and obsessively accurate, covering accounting, payroll, HR, sales tax, and the automation that connects them.
Most clients arrive at the same moment: the business has outgrown the spreadsheet and the founder is still the last set of eyes on the books. Enzo's answer is never a bigger spreadsheet. It's a designed system, documented end to end, with clear owners and a close that lands by the 10th of every month. Clients get always up-to-date books, investor-ready financials on demand, and a named team that flags cash and compliance issues before they become problems.
That systems instinct shows up everywhere. Enzo maps client operations in color-coded flow charts, connects Xero to payroll and billing so data moves without anyone retyping it, and treats every recurring manual task as a design flaw worth fixing. The firm is Xero-exclusive, and Enzo has spent years in that ecosystem as a member of the Xero Ambassador Program and a former member of the Partner Advisory Council, speaking at Xero events across North America. In August 2026, Accounting Prose won Mid-Size Firm of the Year at the Xero Partner Awards.
On the people side, Accounting Prose runs culture-first. HR Prose starts with what a company actually values, then builds hiring, policy, and compliance around it, rather than handing a founder a generic handbook and calling it culture. Enzo holds the firm to the same standard internally, on the theory that you can't sell a people-first back office while running a transactional one.
The values underneath the work
Bodhisattva.
As a young Buddhist, Enzo committed to work toward enlightenment for the sake of all beings, a goal both terrifying and freeing. Terrifying because who takes on something that large. Freeing because it assumes a single person can make a difference. Over time that commitment turned practical. Enlightenment, in Enzo's reading, is the state of flow you reach when you're fully engaged in work you care about with people you're glad to know. So the job becomes clearing obstacles: for clients, for the team, for anyone trying to do good work. It also means protecting the boundary between work and life, so people can be fully present wherever they are.
Kaizen.
The Japanese word for improvement, adopted into business language to mean continuous refinement of process. Enzo applies it first to their own mind, examining thought patterns and assumptions, which makes it easier to meet other people with empathy and see the world more generously than five years ago. The same instinct fuels a habit of constant study, including courses with no obvious connection to accounting or business. Applied to relationships, Kaizen becomes the Bodhisattva path in daily form: if someone needs help, lift them up so their own improvement compounds.
Enzo also teaches. Accountants, bookkeepers, and CFOs come to Enzo's workshops and keynotes to learn how AI and automation change the shape of a modern firm, in practical terms they can apply the following Monday. The through line with the client work is the same belief: better systems give people back their time and attention.
Enzo lives at 8,300 feet in Evergreen, Colorado, where the growing season is short and seed-saving is a habit picked up out of necessity (but sticks around because of passion). Outside of work you'll find them skiing in the Rockies, making and mixing techno, house, and disco, dancing at music festivals, and speaking at conferences about where accounting goes next. Operations and creativity feed each other, and Enzo has stopped pretending otherwise.
Favorite Things:
Skiing in the Rockies
High-Altitude Gardening
Techno Music
