Nicole is a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (“PwC”) based in New York with more than 20 years of public accounting experience.
Since July 2015 she has been on tour in PwC's National Quality Organization (“NQO”) as part of the SEC Services Practice. In this role she is responsible for consulting on a wide array of capital markets activities, complex SEC matters and other areas relating to accounting, auditing and financial reporting. She also performs pre-filing reviews of transactional documents and periodic filings with the SEC for both domestic and foreign private issuer registrants.
Prior to serving in the NQO, Nicole was a partner in the Transaction Services (“Deals”) practice. In this role she consulted on and provided assurance and advisory services to companies across a broad range of industries in the United States, Europe and South Africa with a focus on complex financial reporting matters. She has advised corporates and private equity houses on the execution of their capital markets transactions (public and private debt and equity offerings), divestitures, and on complex accounting and reporting matters under various GAAPs. More recently she spent a significant amount of time consulting on spin-off transactions. Nicole also has several years of experience advising companies on the adoption of, and reporting under International Financial Reporting Standards ('IFRS').
Prior to her relocation to New York in October 2004, Nicole was based in London, United Kingdom. During her 5 years with the Global Capital Markets Group in London, a technical specialist group within the Transaction Services practice, she was primarily responsible for advising and assisting with the application of US GAAP and IFRS, and the SEC reporting requirements for foreign private issuers. During this time her client base included a concentration of consumer products companies, utilities, and oil and gas services companies.
Nicole is both a certified public accountant and a chartered accountant. Prior to joining the accounting profession, she qualified as a lawyer. She is a regular speaker on financial reporting and accounting topics.