Ownership of complex workflows for global diversified alternate AM with ~1Trillion AUM

Challenge faced by the client

• Handling complex-domain intrinsic workflows at scale

Engagement highlights

• Crisil offers research, middle office, and valuations support
• Our coverage spans both US and European alternative assets, encompassing private debt, private equity, and hedge funds

Deal support

• Deal surveillance and reporting on 350+ private deals and 800+ public deals, involving the updating and construction of financial models. Additionally, providing qualitative reviews for quarterly/monthly filings
  

Corporate finance

• Valuation support for private deals, including onboarding and preparation of monthly/quarterly dashboards across direct lending strategies, covering 200+ private assets for regulatory compliance and risk management
  
• FP&A support for financial reporting to internal/external stakeholders

Middle/back office

• Reconciliation and shadow accounting support on 400+ private and public portfolios with Crisil
  
• Managing centralized financial database of investee companies

ESG integration

• ESG due diligence for private (~200) and liquid credit (~600) transactions; quantitative ESG scorecards for 700+ liquid positions; good governance assessment for SFDR-labelled funds

• Rapidly scaled up the support and took ownership of 90% of model roll forwards to free up the onshore team's bandwidth
• Cleared cash/par reconciliation backlog by assuming complete ownership of recon workflows and prevented costly errors
• Leveraged deep domain expertise in ESG to design and build scorecards/frameworks with exceptional quality