About this session

Fund finance is where the cost of manual process is most visible and least discussed. 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 also a place where AI is now doing real, measurable work inside real firms.

This 45-minute session sets out what that looks like concretely: extracting and normalising portfolio company data from whatever format it arrives in; drafting and validating capital call and distribution notices at scale; supporting allocation and waterfall calculations with a transparent, checkable trail; flagging reconciliation breaks before quarter-end; and turning management reporting from an assembly job into a review job. We spend real time on the objections that matter most 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 controls and segregation of duties work, 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