Accelerating AI-Enabled Insights Across Your Financial Operations

Finance and accounting (F&A) leaders in the Office of the CFO are operating in an evolving landscape where, according to Gartner, data-driven decision-making and resource optimization are key priorities to drive efficient growth and navigate increased demands. And of course, new technology like AI and advanced intelligence in finance is accelerating, offering new opportunities to automate processes and enhance insights.

As organizational needs grow, F&A teams must deliver accuracy without compromise. At BlackLine, we’re committed to supporting your priorities with innovative solutions that evolve alongside you.

Let’s explore how BlackLine's AI-enabled innovations like Journal Risk Analyser, enhanced EIPP capabilities, and Entity-Level Certification accelerate operational insights, streamline processes, and proactively identify risk throughout the financial lifecycle.

Manual journal entries are risky and costly. That’s why BlackLine has created Journals Risk Analyser, a solution that accelerates insights by providing a central platform to visualize your entire journal entry population. It surfaces insights using natural language querying and data summarization to explore and explain trends and detect anomalies across manual journal entries.

How Does Journals Risk Analyser Work?

Journals Risk Analyser puts finance and accounting in control when it comes to preventing and detecting journal entry risks.

• Visualize journal entries in a centralized platform by capturing, understanding, and evaluating journal entries across multiple ERPs and systems with access to critical metrics in dynamic, user-friendly dashboards.

• Analyze data and identify journal entry trends using natural language processing and dynamic KPI trending. Make quicker and more informed decisions with AI-assisted insights.

• Prevent adjustments and audit issues with a proactive data-driven approach. Identify anomalies in manual journal entries for further investigation and determine areas for automation and best practices to streamline journal entry processes.

With Journals Risk Analyser, companies can unlock hidden insights and make decisions that reduce risk, prevent audit adjustments, and optimize company policies.​

We’re introducing state-of-the-art business intelligence dashboarding for eInvoicing and payments, which will increase visibility into invoice delivery and allow you to quickly adjust and action invoices that are not being delivered, driving accuracy in future invoice processing.

This enhancement boosts the visibility and value gained with BlackLine’s eInvoicing and payments solution, simplifying your process by sending invoices directly to accounts payable portals and automatically feeding invoice status updates, customer feedback, and key information into your cash application and collections processes to improve decision intelligence.

As stated by SIG plc Director of UK Credit Management, “The credit team loves that they don’t have to deal with calls requesting invoice copies. Instead, they can spend their time minimizing risk and resolving disputes.”

Entity-Level Certification allows you to group financials and assign signoffs at any level – account, entity, group, region, hierarchy, or consolidated, driving greater control and visibility in the financial statement review process. Flexible configurations and centralized control across all levels mean you always have the right people, in the right place, at the right time.

Plus, with a full audit trail, Entity-Level Certification provides transparency and accountability to all levels of the organization.

Finance and accounting teams can no longer afford to rely on outdated, manual processes. Now is the time to invest in intelligent, automated solutions that empower you to move faster, work smarter, and make more informed decisions. BlackLine’s financial operations platform is built to help modern finance leaders gain control, improve accuracy, and drive efficiency across your record-to-report and invoice-to-cash processes.

We deliver solutions that optimize your financial operations and drive insights. From improving journals processes to enhancing forecasting and integrating AI-driven insights, our innovations empower finance teams to work smarter, reduce risk, and drive strategic growth.

As we continue to innovate, our commitment remains steadfast – to enable our customers to navigate the complexities of modern finance with confidence and precision.