BRANDON L. FORNES
Fort Lee, NJ 07024
**********@*****.***
EDUCATION Saint Peter's College - Associates Degree in Business
Management
Current Status: Obtaining Bachelors Degree in Accounting
Expected Graduation Date: February 2012
RELATED
EXPERIENCE Analyst / Relationship Manager - The Bank of New York Mellon,
New York, NY
10/06 to 11/09
. Responsible for assisting with the modeling of CDO
deals on Excel and CDO Sentry.
. Created accurate and timely Note Valuation Trustee
reports for over 14 deals on a monthly and quarterly
basis.
. Understand Indentures (specifically the waterfall and
reporting sections).
. Communicated frequently with collateral managers and
outside investors on deal specific matters.
Collateral Input Administrator - Commerzbank AG, New York,
NY
01/01 to 10/06
. Reviewed and input collateral into Loan IQ upon the
submission of the qualitative collateral assessment
by the credit analysts.
. Supported RCO analysts in completion of financial
spreadsheets.
. Researched equity and fixed income reports for credit
department using Bloomberg terminal.
Data Quality Analyst
. Created and maintained financial reports for
management on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis.
. Developed reports (Excel/Oracle) for the Account
Services Group and/or other departments as needed.
Assistant Conduit Administrator
. Daily responsibilities entailed performing reconciliation
of Cash accounts to the Wall Street trading application,
and downloading and linking of assets and commercial paper.
. Monthly responsibilities included processing of CAD
(Canadian Dollar) loan reset and AMBAC fee
calculation, tracking all Liquidity Fee payments to
Non-US entities for Tax Department filing of 1042s at
year-end. In addition, I monitored monthly/quarterly-
servicing (Trustee) reports for conduit.
. Compiled data used by outside auditors for Quarterly
Agreed Upon Procedures.
Staff Accountant - TSR Wireless LLC, Fort Lee, NJ
09/96 to 01/01
. Performed monthly analysis on P&L expense accounts.
. Responsibilities included bank reconciliations and
daily cash sweeps.
. Prepared annual audit lead schedules. Assisted in
the implementation and conversion of new accounting
software system.
SKILLS Proficient in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Loan IQ,
PeopleSoft, and CDO Sentry