Deloitte and BlackLine alliance

As BlackLine’s most mature solution, Deloitte helps clients consider their current balance sheet account reconciliations to optimize as you transition to BlackLine. This includes balance sheet risk assessments, journal entry analysis, cross-system integrations and more to improve this process alongside implementation, training, and go-live.

Deloitte takes a hands on approach to task management implementations to ensure you get the most value out of the product including a full review of your current close calendar, alignment to the BlackLine environment, and linkages with other modules within the BlackLine suite to get a more end-to-end and automated workflow alongside the task management module.

As one of BlackLine’s more advanced modules, transaction matching can help set you apart from other organizations by improving automation around data matching across a large population of data across various sources. Deloitte will help you identify and implement matching use cases that are most beneficial to your business as well as help craft matching logic that will improve % of correct data matches within the platform.

Automated journal automation can help improve and extend the automation around the financial cross process. Consider Deloitte to help align which journals make the most sense for you to automate, how to integrate BlackLine Journals with your GL environments, and how to align with other BlackLine modules.

Through Deloitte’s deep process expertise around Intercompany and BlackLine Intercompany Financial Management (IFM) implementation experience, Deloitte has helped many organizations build or improve their intercompany programs. Intercompany – which is typically one of the most difficult accounting processes – is made more automated through alignment and setup of BlackLine for Intercompany. Deloitte will provide an end-to-end review of your Intercompany processes, align, and standardize internationally, and bring tax/treasury considerations as well from our broader business.

Compliance, Variance, Smart Close, - while lesser known within the BlackLine suite, these modules can help you align our financial close/SOX controls processes, improve variance analysis and improve the close within SAP (Smart Close).

BlackLine Optimization – Deloitte has been providing detailed BlackLine optimization projects for our clients for many years to help organizations get the most out of their technology investment in BlackLine. Deloitte can help review your current setup, provide assessment improvements such as integrations or re-design, and help you find greater automation throughout your existing use of BlackLine.

Cash Application – as BlackLine’s newest solution, Deloitte will provide our finance and treasury experience to help you implement BlackLine’s Cash Application tool efficiently and effectively to better automation the application of cash and related cash management processes.

Financial Close assessment – through our 6-10 week assessment, Deloitte will review your financial close processes and provide an end-to-end assessment benchmarking you against your peers, sharing improvements around tech and process, as well as helping you consider how your financial close process should evolve as your organization grows.

Intercompany assessment – through our 6-12 week assessment, Deloitte will review your current intercompany processes, technology usage, and governance structure to help assess go-forward improvements which could include streamlined processes and implementation of IC technology such as BlackLine Intercompany Hub

Governance / Risk and Controls support – Deloitte can provide subject-matter support on aligning your BlackLine technology environment against your internal audit and related risk/control needs to ensure long term value that is within regulatory guidelines.

BlackLine implementation support – As SAP’s largest global partner, Deloitte has significant subject matter expertise in ensuring your use of BlackLine is best aligned to your ERP upgrade specifically SAP CFIN or S/4HANA. Deloitte will help you setup proper integrations and align processes between both systems as you look to create more automation within the financial close from ERP through point solution.