Roger Hase

Roger has been with RSM for over 29 years. His career started in RSM's audit practice and then transitioned to RSM's consulting practice performing bank closures, process design and effectiveness assessments, including for regulatory compliance, monitorships on behalf of regulatory orders for the financial services, government and hospitality sectors. Roger has managed large scale projects with up to 50 resources at one time throughout his tenure as Director and Senior Director.

• Developed strong relationships with key industry partners, fostering collaboration and mutual growth opportunities.
• Optimized project timelines by effectively delegating tasks and prioritizing workload aong team members.
• Directed design and execution of business transformation initiatives to drive performance, profit optimization and growth opportunities.

The following are some of the highlights of my consulting experiences.

• Performed large monitorships on behalf of regulators assessing compliance with various regulatory requirements required in entity's stipulated order and in doing so has developed working relationships with various sized financial institutions including big four banks, publicly traded money service businesses, FTC, Office of Mortgage Settlement Oversight (OMSO), FDIC and NYDFS.

• Assisting and advising private equity and hotel operators on compliance with Uniform System of Accounts for Lodging Industry (USALI) to optimize better hotel financial reporting to make strategic decisions on their hotel assets. In doing so, worked with asset managers, private equity and hotel operators to collaborate on one hotel financial reporting universe.
• Provided (i) Gap Analysis and Recommendations for improved reporting including mapping accounts from Operator to Owner’s financial reporting system, (ii) hotel brand fees due diligence to determine nature of service, billing methodology and annual costs for allocations, shared services costs and fees charged to Owners by Hotel Operators, (iii) and provided forensic reviews.
• Provided timeshare consulting services for a capital market lender consisting of due diligence services on their current borrowers and prospects including analyzing the installment receivables using static pool analysis, in-depth interviews with various department heads and compliance reviews of servicing of installment receivables.
• Technical reviewer on AML and Minimum Internal Control Standards compliance reviews for state regulators for casinos.

• Assisted FTC in monitoring a publicly traded money service business for compliance with their consent order
• Services included a complete understanding of process design and subsequent testing of their AML anti-fraud program, including KYA processes, to mitigate consumer fraud

• Functional Leader managing internal audits for private equity’s real estate portfolio.
• Internal audits include review of process design against pension fund established criteria and compliance with applicable federal regulations.
• Reengineered audit approach for efficiencies and effectiveness.
• Demonstrated strong attention to detail while reviewing working papers, ensuring that all relevant information was accurately documented and supported by appropriate evidence.
• Developed strong working relationships with clients, fostering trust and open communication channels throughout the auditing process.

• Assisted Office of Mortgage Settlement Oversight in overseeing major lenders’ compliance with the National Servicing Standards pursuant to a National Mortgage Settlement agreement
• The National Servicing Standards consisted of 304 servicing standards and was a pre-cursor to the mortgage servicing rules issued by the CFPB.
• Assisted in maintaining compliance with industry regulations through thorough record-keeping and detailed transaction reporting.

• Engagement leader monitoring various financial institutions’ compliance with their Shared-Loss Agreements between the acquiring institutions and the FDIC
• Team monitored the loss mitigation servicing of approximately $48 billion in shared-loss assets consisting of approximately 250,000 commercial and residential loans
• Co-developed both the single family and non-single-family shared-loss monitoring programs and compliance templates used nationally by RSM.

• Performed role of Accounting Proforma Manager for several bank closings for the FDIC.
• Enhanced customer satisfaction by resolving disputes promptly, maintaining open lines of communication, and ensuring high-quality service delivery.
• Accomplished multiple tasks within established timeframes.

• Auditing real estate, hospitality, service, manufacturing, vacation ownership, common interest realty associations and not for profit entities
• Responsibilities included preparing or reviewing audited financial statements
• Types of audits included compliance and financial audits of state and federal government not-for-profit entities
• Preparation of financial statements included large consolidations requiring post-closing entries and adjusted trial balances
• Audit account analysis included preparing analytical ratios for trends, budget to actual variance reports, discussions with management
• Timeshare Subject Matter Expert, (SME) whose experience includes assessing revenue recognition policies, inventory and cost of sales computations and developing allowance calculations for installment mortgages utilizing static pool analysis
• Lead auditor for 14 years on various real estate and hospitality engagements including large and small timeshare entities
• Managed an annual long-term audit of one of the nation’s largest (at the time) privately held timeshare operators.

• Compliance and financial auditor for profit entities and state and federal agencies such as the Illinois Department of Insurance, U.S. Department of Transportation and U.S. Department of Labor.
• For DOT, worked exclusively with the Office of Inspector General preforming compliance audits which results were issued in OIG's semi-monthly report to Congress.

• Provides regulatory training and new hire training

• Provides thought leadership in regulatory finance by reading proposed and final rules, drafting white papers and articles on such rules, and thereby keeping peers, clients, and prospects current with today’s regulatory changes.