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June 03, 2025

AI-Enabled Financial Operations: Scaling with Confidence Through Data Efficiency

Industry Priorities & Trends
Finance & Accounting Technology
2 Minute Read
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Ali Steinman

Senior Product Marketing Manager

BlackLine

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As the Office of the CFO accelerates its digital transformation journey, it’s clear that data efficiency is no longer optional—it’s foundational. To operate at scale and deliver real-time insights, finance leaders must rethink how they manage growing volumes of data across systems, processes, and teams.

BlackLine is meeting this challenge with a collection of new innovations purpose-built to support high-frequency operations, reduce manual work, and power intelligent automation. Whether you're reconciling billions of transactions monthly or need more agility to respond to operational or regulatory requirements, our latest capabilities and upcoming innovations make it easier than ever to achieve efficiency, accuracy, and intelligence.

High-Frequency Reconciliations: Precision at the Pace of Your Business

Industries like financial institutions, retail, and healthcare are increasingly required to reconcile accounts daily, or as needed, to stay ahead of regulatory requirements. Other organizations require more frequent reconciliations to strengthen controls or in response to certain factors like transaction volume or risk exposure. BlackLine’s High Frequency Reconciliations solution empowers teams to meet this need with powerful, scalable automation.

With efficient reconciliation processes in place, finance teams can quickly surface anomalies, validate data in real time, and maintain an accurate financial picture at any point in the reporting cycle.

Key Benefits:

  • Establish efficient, compliant, and auditable workflows that scale with your transaction volume and regulatory complexity

  • Improve the accuracy of related accounts and visibility into previous reconciliations, transaction details, reconciling items, aging, and more

  • Reduce risk related to these accounts with efficient, automated processes that streamline exception handling and enable capacity for researching identified discrepancies, errors, or anomalies

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I have teams that are reconciling daily because they need to be able to produce a reconciliation from any given day, not just month end, for the auditors and prove that it was prepared and approved. Being able to do this in BlackLine will allow us to have that same visibility we have at month end and make it easier for the auditors to obtain.

Assistant Controller, Financial Services Company

Journal Batches: Streamlined Certification at Scale

Manual journal entry processes slow down your close and introduce unnecessary risk, especially when working with large, complex, or multi-entity organizations. BlackLine’s Journal Batches enhances our Journal Entry solution by allowing teams to group related journals and move them together across certification workflows or even into a single workflow.

Now, you can post entire batches of journals together, validated and certified in one unified step, with shared supporting documentation and approval routing.

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As a multinational company, we book multi-currency and multi-division journals based on a single calculation. Journal Batching allows us to batch similar journals together with a single supporting document and a single approval workflow. The ability to batch removes repetitive, non-value-added manual work and reduces approver time.

Senior Finance Leader, Fortune 500 Technology Company

Matching Efficiencies: Managing Massive Data with AI & Automation

As data volumes explode, traditional matching processes can’t keep up. That’s why BlackLine continues to evolve our matching capabilities to handle extreme scale while improving user productivity and auditability.

Big Data Matching

Coming soon: Process up to six billion transactions per month—or 200 million per day! BlackLine will soon deliver hyper-scalability for organizations in data-intensive industries like retail or financial services, enabling rapid ingestion, matching, and analysis of massive data sets.

Action Item Management

Within Transaction Matching or Account Analysis, users can now create and assign action items directly from transactions, allowing for easier investigation and faster resolution of exceptions. This increases workflow visibility and accelerates decision-making.

Transaction Matching Agent

To help you unlock even more value, BlackLine is embedding intelligence into your process with AI matching agents that enhance accuracy and efficiency by suggesting pass rules and recommending matches. AI-generated recommendations are based on user feedback, continuously refining over time.

Snowflake Integration & Studio360: Centralized Data, Trusted Insights

Foundational to scalable finance operations is clean, centralized data. BlackLine’s Studio360 Integrate offers pre-built connectors, APIs, and orchestration tools to unify, cleanse, and transform data, ensuring a single source of truth across your F&A landscape.

A key part of the power of Studio360 Integrate comes from our partnership with Snowflake, which enhances our platform’s data capabilities. With Snowflake Data Sharing, you can instantly move core accounting data in and out of BlackLine without custom coding or file generation, dramatically reducing the IT workload and accelerating time to value. And, by integrating Snowflake’s powerful data cloud, finance teams can manage massive data volumes at unprecedented speed and enjoy a seamless, efficient data pipeline from ingestion to insight.

The combination of Studio360 Integrate and Snowflake is a strategic enabler for financial transformation, resulting in improved operational agility and more confident decision-making based on trusted insights.

A Scalable Path Forward

Whether you’re reconciling daily, processing billions of transactions, or striving to centralize financial data for smarter automation, BlackLine is delivering the tools to help you scale accurately, efficiently, and with intelligence.

Data efficiency is no longer a back-office concern. It’s the foundation for insight, control, and transformation across your financial operations. And with AI-driven automation embedded throughout our platform, we’re equipping you to move faster, work smarter, and lead with confidence.

Accelerating AI-Enabled Insights Across Your Financial Operations

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About the Author

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Ali Steinman

Senior Product Marketing Manager, BlackLine

Ali is an experienced Finance Transformation Leader at BlackLine with expertise in finance and accounting transformation, process optimization, and controls and compliance. With a passion for empowering F&A teams, Ali helps companies achieve future-ready financial options, enabling organizations to build accurate, efficient, and intelligent processes. Ali is an active CPA in California and holds a Master of Science in Accounting, combining technical acumen with a strategic mindset to deliver results.