Shared success: Leading business & professional services organizations rely on BlackLine

More than 425 business & professional services companies trust the BlackLine Agentic Financial Operations Platform™—powered by Studio360 and Verity™ AI—to deliver F&A transformation across the Office of the CFO.

99.9%

of transactions reconciled accurately

75%

of transactions automatically matched

50%

journal entry automation

Agentic Financial Operations for business & professional services organizations

The business and professional services sector is transforming as companies increasingly adopt AI, digital tools, and data-driven approaches to meet client demands and enhance service delivery.  
 
Faced with complex billing models, rising operational costs, and the need for greater efficiency, finance and accounting (F&A) teams in this sector must evolve. While the promise of AI is undeniable, F&A professionals must be able to direct autonomous AI agents within deterministic, rules-based controls to run finance continuously, intelligently, and securely. The more AI finance puts to work, the more trust it needs. That's why BlackLine pairs automation with governance at every step. 

Distinctly Accurate. Exceptionally Efficient. Financially Intelligent.

Streamline high-volume reconciliations like bank, credit card, and payroll

Matching and reconciling massive volumes of transactional data manually is time consuming, tedious, and error-prone, especially if managed in spreadsheets. BlackLine’s Agentic Financial Operations Platform standardizes and automates your reconciliations with the ability to ingest, transform, and match high volumes of transaction level data from multiple systems such as ERPs, banks, credit card processors, Professional Services Automation (PSA) tools, and time-tracking databases. Finance-led AI reduces the risk of process breakdowns and undetected financial statement errors, enabling teams to focus their time on anomalies and exceptions. 

Streamline processes like unbilled revenue accruals and clearing accounts

Manual management of record-to-report activities is inefficient and error-prone. Our solution automates these processes, providing real-time visibility into complex time-and-materials billing, milestone revenue recognition (ASC 606), and deferred revenue accruals, freeing up resources to focus on higher-value activities that drive growth and profitability. By embedding AI with event-driven orchestration, finance becomes continuous—when one action finishes, the next triggers instantly. 

Automate journal entry management and reduce risk with finance-led AI insights

Business and professional services companies book thousands of journal entries per month, increasing the risks related to financial compliance, audit compliance and accurate decision making. BlackLine centralizes and standardizes journal entries across various ERPs, automating workflows from creation to posting, increasing efficiency and control. With AI-driven insights, our solution enhances visibility into the volume, timing, and nature of your journal entries, minimizing risk and maximizing intelligence. 

Optimize credit management, automate cash application, and accurately forecast cash flows

Efficient cash flow management is critical to business health. Our solution optimizes credit management and automates cash application, helping your teams reduce days sales outstanding (DSO), improve working capital, and maximize service line margins.

Navigate intercompany process complexities and reduce related risk

The inability to proactively manage cross-border resource sharing, contractor fees, and global transfer pricing exposes organizations to audit risks and potential remediation penalties. Our solutions improve profitability by automating transactions across hundreds of predefined service types and tax jurisdictions and provide built-in logic to both apply the correct transfer pricing rules and tax considerations to every transaction in the end-to-end flow. 

Identify and resolve financial
anomalies swiftly

Inaccurate financial data can be costly. With our platform’s anomaly detection capabilities, you can identify and resolve financial discrepancies quickly, ensuring accuracy in your financial reporting while reducing the risk of costly errors.

Verity™ AI

Building the Trust Infrastructure for the AI Era of Finance.

Move beyond generic, black box AI to governed AI execution with Verity AI. Built on 20+ years of deep finance and accounting process knowledge and a foundation of trusted data with an essential control layer, Verity understands your complex workflows, delivering AI that teams can finally trust. Empower your team to become strategic advisors. 

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