Fund Pricing Automation Case Study: 87% Fewer Manual Checks

OVERVIEW

A leading UK-based asset and wealth management company partnered with Yexle to transform a highly manual, fragmented fund pricing process into a digitised, controls-driven workflow built on Appian. By unifying data, process, and technology into a single delivery model, the engagement cut manual checks by 87% and process steps by 65%, establishing a scalable foundation for controls automation across the business.

IMPACT

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Reduction in manual checks (40 → 5)

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Reduction in process steps (65 → 23)

Over 80%

Of control activities automated

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Single source of truth established

ABOUT THE CLIENT

The client is a leading asset and wealth management company managing complex, high-volume fund pricing operations. As part of a broader operational transformation initiative, the organisation sought to modernise a critical fund pricing process that had grown increasingly manual and fragmented over time.

CHALLENGE

Fund pricing relied on a highly manual, fragmented process involving multiple hand-offs between teams and limited end-to-end visibility. This created meaningful operational risk: control activities were performed manually, traceability was inconsistent, and teams had no single source of truth to work from. As transaction volumes and regulatory expectations grew, the existing process was becoming harder to govern, slower to execute, and increasingly reliant on manual workarounds.

REQUIREMENTS

Digitise the pricing process end-to-end while embedding controls directly into the embedded automation and controls

Shift the operating model from manual, transaction-by-transaction processing to exception-based oversight

Bring data, process, technology, and business stakeholders into a single, unified delivery model

Improve auditability and traceability without slowing down day-to-day operations

Create a foundation that could be extended to other controls and operations use cases in the future

SOLUTION POWERED BY APPIAN

The solution was built on Appian 26.1, the platform's latest version.

A unified data model consolidated previously siloed data sources into a single source of truth.

Embedded controls and governance-built control checkpoints directly into the process, enabling exception-based oversight instead of blanket manual checking.

End-to-end process digitisation replaced manual, hand-off-heavy steps with an automated Appian workflow, cutting process steps from 65 to 23.

Automated control activities replaced the majority of manual checks, >cutting them by 87% (40 down to 5).

Auditability was built into the workflow by design, making every action traceable and improving governance.

The solution was architected as a reusable automation blueprint, extendable to future controls and operations use cases.

BUSINESS VALUE DELIVERED

Freed up colleagues' capacity for higher-value analysis instead of manual processing

Delivered a process that is faster, more reliable, and easier to govern

Positioned the client to scale automation across controls and operations more broadly

CLIENT QUOTE

“A highly collaborative delivery bringing multiple teams together — delivered at pace.”

— Project Product Owner

WHY YEXLE

Yexle delivered this transformation with a team that worked directly alongside the client's operations and controls functions throughout the engagement. Rather than automating the existing process as-is, the team prioritised a simplified, future-ready design and automating the process in a way that stays adaptable as requirements evolve. That decision is what turned a single pricing-process fix into a capability the client's team can now operate and extend on their own.

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87% Reduction in Manual Checks: Automating Fund Pricing Controls with Appian