Fund Ops Automation Checklist

A practical guide to modernizing fund operations with CoSet 

Fund operations teams spend hundreds of hours each month on repetitive, manual processes: downloading files, reconciling formats, validating data, and distributing outputs to downstream systems. This checklist helps you identify which parts of your fund ops stack are ready for automation — and how CoSet replaces manual workflows with reliable, production-grade automation. 

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1. Data Intake & Counterparty Downloads

Struggling to keep up with manual ingestion?

  • Do you manually log into investor portals, bank portals, or administrator sites to download files?  
  • Do counterparties deliver data on different schedules (daily, monthly, ad-hoc)?  
  • Do file formats vary by counterparty (Excel, CSV, PDF, ZIP)?  
  • Do downloads fail silently when credentials expire or portals change? 

How CoSet helps

CoSet automates secure counterparty downloads on a schedule, monitors failures, and standardizes file intake across all sources — without scripts or fragile RPA.

2. File Normalization & Transformation

Is transforming data proving to be a manual and fickle process?

  • Do you spend time renaming files or restructuring folders? 
  • Are spreadsheets manually cleaned, re-formatted, or re-mapped each cycle? 
  • Do similar transformations repeat month after month? 
  • Are transformation rules tribal knowledge rather than documented logic? 

How CoSet helps

CoSet applies declarative transformation rules to normalize incoming data into a standardized schema. Transformations are versioned, repeatable, and run the same way every time — no manual spreadsheet work required. 

3. Reconciliation & Validation

Reconciliations causing headache

  • Do you manually reconcile balances across administrators, custodians, and internal systems? 
  • Are checks performed inconsistently across teams or funds?
  • Do errors surface late in the process rather than at ingestion?
  • Is there limited visibility into why a reconciliation failed? 

How CoSet helps

CoSet embeds validation and reconciliation logic directly into workflows, catching issues as data arrives and flagging exceptions automatically with full audit context. 

4. Downstream Distribution & System Loading

Still manually sharing details with other teams?

  • Do files need to be re-uploaded into accounting systems, data warehouses, or internal tools?
  • Are outputs manually emailed or placed into shared folders?
  • Do different teams need slightly different output formats? 
  • Are deliveries delayed because upstream steps run late? 

How CoSet helps

CoSet automatically delivers clean, validated outputs to S3, databases, internal systems, or shared storage — in the exact format each downstream system expects.

5. Scheduling & Monitoring

Timing and processes rely on intervention and monitoring?

  • Are processes triggered manually or via calendar reminders? 
  • Do failures require someone to notice and investigate?
  • Is there limited visibility into workflow status across funds?
  • Are SLAs difficult to enforce consistently? 

How CoSet helps

CoSet workflows run on schedules or event triggers, with built-in monitoring, alerts, and execution logs so ops teams know exactly what ran, when, and why.

6. Documentation, Auditability & Knowledge Retention

Scattered knowledge?

  • Are processes documented outside the system that runs them?
  • Is logic embedded in spreadsheets, emails, or one-off scripts? 
  • Would a key person leaving disrupt operations? 
  • Is audit evidence difficult to reconstruct? 

How CoSet helps

With CoSet, workflows are the documentation. Every step, transformation, and execution is traceable, auditable, and reproducible.

AI-Assisted Setup (Without AI in Production)

Don't have time to set up all of these automations?

  • Is setting up automation slow or dependent on engineering resources? 
  • Are changes risky once workflows are live? 
  • Do you want flexibility without runtime AI risk? 

How CoSet helps

CoSet uses AI to help design workflows and transformation logic — but the production execution is deterministic, scheduled, and non-AI. You get speed without sacrificing reliability. 

When You’re Ready

If you checked any of the boxes above, your fund ops processes are candidates for automation. 

CoSet is built specifically for fund operations teams that need: 

  • Reliable, non-fragile automation 
  • Full control over data transformations 
  • Clear audit trails 
  • No-code configuration without sacrificing precision 

Next step:
Schedule a demo to see how CoSet replaces manual fund ops workflows end-to-end. 

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