Loan Assistant

ROBERT MELENDEZ

*** ****** ***., **** #***

Jersey City, New Jersey 07305

Cell 914-***-****

E-mail: ************@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE:

Loan Administration and Treasury support specialist with substantial experience in the Banking/ Financial industry. Hands on management of the day to day operations within several leading foreign financial institutions. Implemented processes, procedures, and resources in order to more effectively expedite operational responsibilities while maintaining the integrity of compliance and minimizing the margin for error. Detail and results oriented mentality with a particular focus on problem solving.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

LevelUp/Star Staffing (as Consultant for ING Capital LLC, N.Y.) LOAN ADMINISTRATION, Oct. ’18 to Sep. ‘ 19

Consultant

• Managed the daily administrative functions of the ING Latin American portfolio.

• Acted as liaison providing administrative instructions received from Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Manila, Philippines, via a proprietary system for further input into the LoanIQ system.

• Instructions include but are not limited to, new loans, rollovers, principal (pre)repayments, interest/fee payments, margin changes.

• Performed direct LoanIQ input for non-standard functionality.

• Functionality includes but is not limited to, the booking of new deals/facilities, input of repayment schedules, grid pricing level changes, guarantee details, deal changes, facility changes.

• Reconciliation of all CCY Nostro accounts.

BNP PARIBAS RCC (Fortis purchased by BNPP)

LOAN ADMINISTRATION, Jan. ’10 to Jul. ‘17

Assistant Vice-President/Vice-President

• Team Leader managing various portfolios under the jurisdiction of the Loan Administration Department including but not limited to Loan Trading, CLO Warehousing, Discounted Accounts Receivable purchased and Securities Administration.

• Review, approval and release of new deal closings with the Loan IQ system.

• Review, approval and release of but not limited to, new loans, rollovers, repayments, pre- payments, principal increases, commitment/facility fee payments, manual G/L entries and manual cash flows within the Loan IQ system.

• Responsible for ensuring the timely and proper reconciliation of all USD/FCY cash accounts for the various portfolios under our jurisdiction.

• Conducted performance evaluations for Loan Administration staff members. FORTIS AMERICAS, NEW YORK

LOAN ADMINISTRATION, Jun. ‘04 to Jan. ‘10

Vice-President

• Managed and administered the operational aspects of Fortis, Canada’s Commercial Loan portfolio, including but not limited to deal closings, maintenance of operational and funding cash accounts.

• Reviewed and deciphered Loan Agreements in order to extract information required for the booking and operational administration of new Deal/Loan Closings.

• Administered all aspects of Loan syndications, Loan participations and bi-lateral deals.

• Handled secondary purchases/sales of Loan facilities including calculation and verification of premium/discount, delayed compensation, economic benefit and settlement.

• Served as the point person for SWIFT operations within the Loan Administration Department.

• Conducted performance evaluations for Loan Administration staff members. UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA PLC, NEW YORK

OPERATIONS, Mar. ’02 to Apr. ‘04

Operations Manager

• Managed the day to day operations of the Commercial Lending, Treasury Back Office, Customer Service, Paying/Receiving and Investigations Departments.

• Reviewed and monitored all facets of the Commercial Lending Operations area including commitment closings, draw downs, rollovers, participations, interest accruals/settlements, fee accruals/amortizations/settlements, breakages, invoices.

• Responsible for the annual performance appraisals of a nine person staff. BANK AUSTRIA AG, NEW YORK (B.A. purchased by Hypovereinsbank, New York-2001), May ’88 to Jul. ‘01

COMMERCIAL LOAN OPERATIONS – AVP

TREASURY OPERATIONS: Assistant Treasurer/FX-MM Supervisor TECHNICAL SKILLS: Loan IQ, Midas, CORE02, Microsoft Excel/Word, SWIFT, Connexus Cash

EDUCATION: BROOKLYN TECHNICAL H.S., BROOKLYN, N.Y., Architectural Graduate

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