Enhancing Portfolio Reconciliation with Power Automate Desktop and Agentic Workflow for a Private Equity Firm

1. The Client

A prominent Private Equity firm based in Singapore, managing a diverse portfolio of high-value client investments, with operations requiring daily reconciliation of large-scale financial data from multiple sources. 

2. The Need

The firm was struggling with the manual handling of large Excel files and integration with bank APIs to reconcile client equity portfolios. This process was slow, error-prone, and resource-intensive. 

Key Challenges: 

• Multiple data reporting formats from investment banking partners (APIs + Excel). 

• Daily portfolio updates with inconsistent data formats and structures. 

• Time-consuming reconciliation process prone to human error.

   

3. The Solution

Leveraging Star Knowledge’s automation and AI expertise, we delivered a Power Automate Desktop + Agentic Workflow solution to fully automate reconciliation workflows. 

Key Solution Components: 

• Unattended Agentic Workflow: Primary agent handled portfolio data reconciliation; secondary agent queried third-party API systems daily without human intervention. 

• API & Excel Integration: Automated extraction and transformation of data from diverse formats. 

• Data Normalization: Converted incoming data into a standardized structure for Azure Data Lake ingestion. 

• Report Reconciliation: Automated matching of reports with client folio numbers for precise verification. 

• Automated Reporting: End-of-day summary reports sent directly to reporting leads for faster insights.

   

4. Results & Benefits Obtained

    

• Operational Efficiency: Freed up staff to focus on strategic activities. 

• Improved Data Accuracy: Automated reconciliation minimized errors. 

• Faster Decision-Making: Prompt generation and distribution of reports. 

• Scalability: Easily accommodated increasing data volumes without extra staffing. 

5. Star Knowledge Advantage

    

With proven expertise in Power Automate, LangChain AI workflows, and financial data automation, Star Knowledge helps private equity, investment banking, and financial services organizations transform manual, error-prone processes into scalable, accurate, and intelligent workflows. 
 
Contact us today to discover how we can help streamline your financial operations with automation and AI-driven intelligence.