Matthew Harwood

Hedge Fund Analyst at Northern Trust

Greater Chicago Area

About

Experience

  • Hedge Fund Consultant at Northern Trust
    Jan 2022 - Sep 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos

    • Creates & reviews month end net asset valuation month-end packages on Excel for several hedge funds to ascertain accuracy between financial statements, supporting schedules & final Net Asset Value • Evaluates year-end Financial Statements and collaborates with external auditors to ensure correctness of every fund’s annual reports • Communicates with client and other interdepartmental teammates to problem solve and improve procedures • Works with both onshore and offshore team to meet deadlines, perform checks with monthly allocations and track capital activity movement within funds • Research monthly investment activity & provides investors flash estimates of their investing performance monthly

  • Accounting Analyst - Cloud Computing at CDW
    Sep 2017 - Apr 2018 · 8 mos

    ● Ensured that cloud computing business segment invoicing was accurately reflected in the general ledger for the period in which the billing occurred ● Worked extensively with the accounts payable & receivables team to determine gross profit monthly & analyzing that number with the company benchmarked amounts ● Input and helped generate month end spreadsheet details to analyze company revenue from subscribers and cost of goods sold to vendors ● Utilized Excel V-Lookup function along with pivot tables to ensure that data imported from Zuora (revenue) and Peoplesoft (vendors) were accurately reconciled to monthly revenue and cost of goods sold

  • Staff Accountant at FGMK, LLC
    Sep 2015 - Nov 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos

    ● Maintained financial records and source documents of small businesses including payroll, depreciation and COGS ● Prepared the following returns: 1040 Individual, 1065 Partnership, 1120 Corporate & Monthly Sales & Use Tax ● Worked extensively with business clients and helped prepare the following financial statements: Balance Sheet, Statement of Operations & Statement of Cash Flows ● Balanced and reconciled general ledger accounts by performing month end bookkeeping in order to generate meaningful reports to ultimately communicate to the client if they met or exceeded their gross profit benchmark ● Set up QuickBooks for new clients and established a chart of accounts along with a beginning retained earnings balance that accurately summarized their accounting and business activity.