NEW BLACKLINE COMPLIANCE PRODUCT STREAMLINES CONTROL MANAGEMENT AND AUDIT PROCESSES
Announcement posted by BlackLine 14 Nov 2018
LAS VEGAS – INTHEBLACK – Nov. 13, 2018 – Financial controls and automation software provider BlackLine, Inc. (Nasdaq: BL) has unveiled a new compliance product purpose-built for managing internal controls in large and midsize companies. The company will debut BlackLine Compliance, the latest addition to its flagship cloud platform, this week at its annual global user conference, InTheBlack 2018: The Accounting & Finance Innovation Summit.
Disparate systems and processes can cause inefficiencies and prevent proper evaluation of risk exposure. Without a solid technology solution, maintaining version control, identifying risk areas and communicating among business units becomes increasingly challenging and complex. With BlackLine Compliance, risks, policies and procedures, controls, issues and audit programs are integrated in a unified, cloud-based system. This accelerates and simplifies audits, consolidates project management and provides enhanced visibility over control activity.
Key BlackLine Compliance product highlights include:
- Enables users to connect the performance, validation and testing of controls from within a single application and interface. Internal auditors can access control evidence directly, reducing dependencies.
- Management of all compliance projects and documents in one globally accessible system, ensuring version control across records.
- Accommodates projects for any compliance initiative, including SOX 302 and 404, IT audits, operational audits and self-assessments. Users can perform testing, attach supporting documentation and validate control effectiveness from a single system.
- Real-time visibility into issues as soon as they are identified with workflow for remediation testing.
- Ability to configure to support unique business processes.
Chart Industries, a $1 billion+ public company, has been using BlackLine Compliance for the past six months.
“One of the challenges we were looking to solve was the amount of administrative time we spent on SOX — from planning and keeping track of workbooks to managing status,” Lindsey Damron, director of Internal Audit, Chart Industries, said. “After implementing BlackLine Compliance, we've seen a huge payoff. We spend significantly less time on administrative tasks and are able to focus on completing our testing and adding more value to the business.”
BlackLine Compliance addresses major pain points for compliance and internal audit teams (such as data duplication, lack of standardisation and lack of visibility) and provides a centralised and efficient solution for managing processes – ultimately helping to ensure greater accuracy and trust in the company’s financials.
“Everyone in the business should be concerned with upholding the highest standards for compliance. It takes people, technology, controls and processes,” added Tucker. “With BlackLine Compliance, we are putting the responsibility of compliance into the hands of more people across the organisation, increasing accountability and ultimately helping our customers achieve a higher level of confidence.”
For more information on BlackLine Compliance, please go here: http://www.blackline.com/compliance
About BlackLine
BlackLine is a provider of cloud-based solutions that transform Finance and Accounting (F&A) by automating, centralising and streamlining financial close operations, intercompany accounting processes and other key F&A processes for large and midsize organisations. The company is recognised by Gartner as a Leader in its 2018 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Financial Close Solutions and as a pioneer in the cloud market for enhanced financial control and automation.
Designed to complement virtually all ERP and other financial systems including SAP, Oracle and NetSuite, BlackLine increases operational efficiency, real-time visibility, control and compliance to ensure end-to-end financial close management and accounting automation from within a single, unified cloud platform. Enabling customers to move beyond outdated processes and point solutions to a Continuous Accounting model, in which real-time automation, controls and period-end tasks are embedded within day-to-day activities, BlackLine helps companies modernise accounting operations with intelligent automation, ensuring more accurate and insightful financial statements and a more efficient financial close.
Approximately 2,500 companies with users around the world trust BlackLine to help ensure balance sheet integrity and confidence in their financial statements. Based in Los Angeles, BlackLine also has regional headquarters in London, Singapore and Sydney. For more information, please visit www.blackline.com.
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