Nicole Johnson, GABELLI ‘94

Nicole Johnson is an assurance partner in EY’s Financial Services Office (FSO) with over 25 years of experience providing assurance and advisory services to a variety of wealth and asset management clients. She has extensive equity, fixed income, private, and derivative products knowledge, including processes and controls over front, middle, and back offices. She has strong knowledge of complex fund and manager organizational structures, offering leading practices for financial reporting of hedge and private equity funds, broker-dealers, and investment advisers.  

Johnson has managed audit and attest engagements for some of the top 100 hedge funds in the industry, with a focus on multi-strategy, high frequency, long/short, and private equity fund managers in New York, Boston, London, and Fairfield County. She also has extensive experience working with early-stage/start-up fund managers as well. In addition, she provides assurance services to the not-for-profit foundation and employee benefit plan clients of the U.S.-based Financial Services Office. 

Johnson is a certified public accountant in Connecticut and New York. She also is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.