About this session

Fund finance is where the cost of manual process is most visible. Capital calls and distributions calculated in spreadsheets and checked by hand. Portfolio company reporting arriving in twenty formats and retyped into a twenty-first. Reconciliations between the administrator, the accounting system and the CRM that never quite agree. Audit season absorbing a quarter of the year. Each is a defensible process built by capable people, and each is now a place where AI is doing measurable work inside real firms.

In 45 minutes we set out what the function looks like once that work is running: portfolio company data normalised whatever format it arrives in, capital call and distribution notices drafted and validated at scale, allocation and waterfall calculations backed by a checkable trail, and reconciliation breaks flagged before quarter-end. We spend real time on the objections that matter in finance: how you audit an AI-assisted number, why a model must never be the engine for anything that hits an LP statement, how segregation of duties holds up, and how you avoid a black box nobody can defend.

Agenda

• The real cost of the close. Where senior finance time actually goes, and what it displaces.

• Data in. Portfolio company reporting, bank and administrator files, and document extraction into usable data.

• Calculation and control. Capital calls, distributions, allocations and waterfalls: what AI assists with, what it must never own, and how the audit trail holds.

• Reporting out. Management accounts, LP statements, quarterly packs, and the shift to review.

• Audit, valuation and regulatory support. Building support packs from source, and what auditors and administrators expect.

• Controls, accountability and defensibility. Segregation of duties, sign-off, versioning, and avoiding the black box.

• Live Q&A