Continue your journey to future- ready financial operations
The path to optimizing the BlackLine platform for scalable growth starts here.
How to optimize your
end-to-end finance and accounting processes
As a BlackLine user, you’re already part of the growing movement towards future-ready financial operations.
Which means you know how important it is to enhance visibility and orchestrate more efficient financial close activities. So, what’s next?
Why do so many of our BlackLine users go beyond Account Reconciliations and Task Management?
For many, they saw a chance to take advantage of the only end-to-end, closed loop financial close solution on the market and use our platform as a driver for long-lasting and scalable growth—and they took it.
At a time when finance leaders and CFOs are under more pressure to drive profitable growth than ever before (according to Gartner)—it’s easy to see why.
Today those advantage-minded customers are using BlackLine to:
Overhaul end-to-end financial close process efficiency
Grow without increasing headcount
Improve their compliance posture
Maximize their ERP investment
Want to follow in their footsteps? Read on…
BlackLine said, ‘Give us your most difficult, most time-consuming reconciliation. Let us put it into BlackLine. We’ll prove it can be done.’ There wasn’t ever an instance where we couldn’t automate. That restored accountants’ trust that this could be done.”
Use Transaction Matching to increase strategic output
Want to get even more out of BlackLine's account reconciliation solutions? A typical next step for our users is attacking the high-volume of transaction-level data they need to reconcile.
The solution? BlackLine Transaction Matching.
Transaction Matching allows you to ingest your detailed data from all sources and automatically reconcile any routine transactions. With these taken care of, your teams are free to focus on more valuable tasks like exceptions, anomalies, and strategy.
No more tedious v-lookups, or color coding—just high-value task execution that helps push your company forward.
With BlackLine, it’s not just a shorter close, it’s a more efficient close. We’re auto certifying 40% of accounts. The benefit is that people are focusing on things that they should be focusing on, like improving the quality of information and ensuring reconciliations are complete.”
Overhaul efficiency and reduce errors with automated Journal Entries
To double-down on the wins from Transaction Matching, our customers often pair it with our automated Journal Entry solution.
Journal entries are a breeding ground for errors because they involve a lot of manual touches. But let BlackLine’s automated Journal Entry solution loose on the problem and you’re able to create journal entries and post them to your ERP—automatically.
Depending on the dollar value of the journal, you can either post them using our touchless process or have the journal entry filled out ready for you to approve.
But this isn’t just about reducing errors. Journal Entry also allows you to overhaul your efficiency. For starters, all of this can be done within the BlackLine platform—which means no time lost switching between systems.
One of our customers saved 900 hours per month across just one account.
Here’s how your processes could look with BlackLine…
A Holistic Approach to Accurate & Efficient Financials
Grow without increasing headcount
Our customers want to see the full end-to-end impact of BlackLine, so they don’t stop here.
They run more and more of their financial close processes through BlackLine, and as they do, they’re able to totally revolutionize their operational capacity.
The result? Their financial close processes become a growth engine that drives the business forward.
AI-powered Journals Risk Analyser
We don’t rest on our laurels.
So while our power-users are extracting maximum value from our financial close offering—we’re constantly increasing the maximum value that’s possible to achieve.
Our latest innovation? AI-powered Journals Risk Analyser. For BlackLine, AI-powered innovation is a focus of our product strategy and roadmap.
See the end-to-end ‘BlackLine effect’ in action
Want to read the story of our power-user customers in full?
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for future-ready
financial operations
Follow in their footsteps and you’ll be able to:
Safeguard accuracy
while making it easier, faster, and more cost effective to attain in the first place.
Overhaul their strategic output
by allowing teams to focus on exceptions and opportunities across all their financial operations rather than data-chasing.
Deliver rapid time to value without sacrificing long-term strategy
by enabling businesses to transform piece-by-piece, then connect those pieces as part of a wider transformation roadmap.
Ready to unlock the full power of BlackLine?
If you’re ready to learn more about the only end-to-end, closed-loop financial close solution on the market–let’s talk.
Give us a little detail on what you’re looking to achieve and your account manager can get the ball rolling.