Forrest Gash Email & Phone Number

Remote, Or Hybrid Near Colorado Springs

Applied accounting, reporting, and financial systems expertise to key business initiatives, special projects, and end of month cutoff processing. Communicate inter-departmentally with Senior Vice Presidents, Associate Vice Presidents, Chief Operating Officers, and investors. » Manually resolve issues between Ginnie Mae (GNMA) and bank's reported balance and transactions by pool or loan level; calculate and process monthly advances by pool, or their advance recovery transactions» Identify and clear HELOC account clearing items during account reconciliations; research older outstanding items as a team, correcting any misapplications.» Cooperate with sister bank on reconciling joint and misdirected funds. » Manage and institute edits for Ginnie Mae monthly cutoff reporting to ensure compliance with agency rules and calculations; make adjustments for mortgage buyoffs or repurchases, account recovery and advances, and decision making for variances against available funds.» Create Excel dashboards to summarize daily reconciliation (items, age, direction, and balancing).» Developed Excel templates to parse text files and manipulate them for data comparisons; assisted in handling increased quantity of HELOC loans.» Process monthly investor remittances on SBO 2000 accounting for variances due to curtailments, modifications, and delinquencies» Board loans onto SBO and reconcile investor balances and settlements while correcting for data or system inaccuracies.» Improved quality assurance by leveraging reports, contacts, and application data to identify and resolve discrepancies.

Denver, Colorado, United States

Subject matter expert in principle and interest (P&I) settlements (totaling $133.3 million in 2019); working with prior servicers, creating invoices, validating/researching variances, and initiating wiring.Reviewing all boarded and transferred loans for potential settlements (up to 100,000 per month), and most cross-trained person on the investor reporting loan transfers team at the time.» Led high-volume, repeated project of more than $190 million in settlement and cost analysis.» Oversaw reports across GSEs tracking investor sales and implementing appropriate internal movements; efficiently processed loan sales and transfers ensuring accurate payouts; own and hone processes for monitoring and processing transfers of loans across Freddie Mac (FHLMC), Fannie Mae (FNMA), and Ginnie Mae (GNMA).» P&I General Ledger research and reconciliation in tandem with Freddie Mac Reporting team.» Created Excel dashboards to summarize monthly loan sale and transfer of servicing activity (month, count, amount, days to process).» Collaborated with senior leadership teams to establish settlement and loan sale correction relationships with new clients.» Worked with Transaction Management team to validate investor sales and move assets internally.» Provided cross-department aid to under-staffed Payment Processing team; corrected cash applications, overdrafts, misapplications, and adjustments ensuring continuity of business operations. » Audited all team-completed setups of investor profiles for completeness, quality, and adherence to auditing and compliance standards.» Created complete investor profiles in Fiserv, SharePoint files, and SBO, in preparation of onboarding.» Maintained Policy and Procedure documentation for Principal and Interest settlements.» Created and edited SQL queries, including "join"ing queries accessing different databases together.

Denver, Co

Reviewed KYC (Know Your Customer) documents for legal investment requirements. Reviewed crypto currency investment fund contracts for consistency and completion by investors. Facilitated contract and KYC document completion in tandem with Investor Relations team. » Spearheaded creation of documentation establishing KYC training and reference material.

Lodi, Ca

Varied hours in: staffing events, production work from grape to bottle, aiding tasting room staff, updating accounts and reconciling, and other miscellaneous tasks as requested.

Galt, Ca

Managing orders and basic supply chain for northern California hub, helped manage workflow of small team of employees, managed relationships with vendors. Posted local accounts payable, reconciling errors. Occasional research into supply chain alternative products, and training of other team members.