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BlackLine

Embrace the efficiency of BlackLine with SandPoint

BlackLine is a strategic tool that empowers businesses to achieve greater financial accuracy, efficiency, and control. At SandPoint Consulting, we’re committed to helping organizations maximize the value of their BlackLine investments. As a trusted partner, we specialize in building and integrating custom BlackLine solutions to streamline your financial processes. Our team of experienced professionals brings a deep understanding of accounting processes and technology to every project.

BlackLine is a comprehensive financial close management solution designed to streamline and automate the financial close process. It offers robust features for account reconciliations, journal entries, flux analysis, and more, enabling organizations to achieve greater accuracy, efficiency, and compliance.

Recent BlackLine clients

Case study

Streamlined financial close at Discovery

Our BlackLine services

Whether you’re just starting with BlackLine, expanding your current solution, or needing a complete platform overhaul, our comprehensive services are here to help you unlock the full potential of your investment

We work with you to develop a tailored strategy that aligns BlackLine with your specific business objectives. From planning to execution, our implementation services ensure a seamless integration that maximizes efficiency and effectiveness.

Our experts handle the complex process of migrating and integrating your data into BlackLine, ensuring accuracy, security, and consistency. We make sure your systems communicate effortlessly, providing a unified view of your financial data.

Unlock deeper insights with customized reporting and analytics solutions. We help you leverage BlackLine’s powerful tools to gain visibility into your financial processes, empowering you to make informed decisions with real-time data.
We provide comprehensive training programs tailored to your team’s needs, ensuring everyone is fully equipped to utilize the platform. Our enablement services foster user adoption and drive continuous improvement in your financial operations.
Our commitment doesn’t end at go-live. We offer ongoing support and optimization services to keep your BlackLine platform running smoothly. If you have an existing solution, we can assess and optimize your setup to meet new challenges and ensuring sustained success.

BlackLine's key benefits

Elevate your finance function with a platform built for efficiency, accuracy, and growth.

Accelerate your close

Streamline your financial close by automating journal entries, reconciliations, and approvals. BlackLine reduces manual effort, accelerates processes, and frees up your team for strategic analysis.

Enhance your reporting accuracy

Achieve standardized reporting across all entities and departments. BlackLine ensures that your financial data is accurate, consistent, and readily available, empowering you with reliable insights.

Strengthen your compliance

Maintain comprehensive audit trails with securely stored documents, comments, and procedures. BlackLine’s centralized system minimizes risk and ensures compliance with regulatory standards.

Centralize your workflows

Monitor and manage your financial close tasks in one centralized location. BlackLine provides real-time updates and notifications, enhancing visibility and enabling faster, more efficient close processes.

Scale your operations

As your business grows, BlackLine adapts to handle increasing complexity without sacrificing efficiency. Manage financial processes seamlessly across multiple geographies, entities, and transactions.

Optimize your insights

Gain instant access to key metrics and real-time progress tracking through customizable dashboards. BlackLine empowers your team with the information they need to make informed decisions quickly.

BlackLine use cases

Optimize your business performance with targeted BlackLine solutions for every financial challenge.

Automate the matching process for high-volume transactions, reducing manual effort and errors. Ensure accuracy and efficiency, allowing your team to focus on quickly resolving discrepancies.
Optimize your financial close with an intelligent solution that automates repetitive tasks and tracks progress in real time. Accelerate the close process to ensure timely and accurate financial statements.
Ensure compliance with regulatory standards by centralizing documentation, tracking audit trails, and reducing risk through automated compliance processes.
Simplify intercompany transactions and reconciliations. Manage complex, multi-entity processes with ease, ensuring accuracy and eliminating discrepancies across your global operations.
Automate and streamline journal entry processes, from creation to approval. Maintain accuracy, consistency, and control while reducing the risk of errors.

Quickly identify discrepancies, analyze variances, and take corrective action, all within a unified platform that supports proactive financial management.

Improve the accuracy and efficiency of account reconciliations. Automate the process to ensure all accounts are balanced and discrepancies are promptly addressed.

Centralize and streamline your financial close tasks. Track progress, assign responsibilities, and ensure nothing falls through the cracks.

 

Simplify invoicing and payment processes by automating the creation, distribution, and tracking of invoices, ensuring timely payments and reducing manual errors.

Accelerate cash application by automating the matching of payments to open invoices, improving cash flow visibility and reducing manual processing time.

Gain actionable insights into accounts receivable. Monitor performance, identify trends, and optimize your collections strategy with real-time analytics and reporting.

Streamline collections by automating communications, tracking outstanding balances, and improving cash flow through prioritized resolution of overdue accounts.

Mitigate risk and manage credit effectively by automating credit evaluations, monitoring credit limits, and maintaining a healthy balance of risk and reward.

Resolve disputes and manage deductions efficiently by automating workflows and tracking progress to ensure timely resolution of discrepancies.

Unlock deeper insights by automating the collection and analysis of financial data, ensuring accurate, timely, and actionable insights to drive strategic decisions.

Ensure the integrity of financial consolidations by automating data validation, maintaining accuracy and consistency across financial statements.

Let's implement together.

Our SandPoint team has been trusted BlackLine partner for companies across industries.

We understand your world

We are more than technologists; we are financial analysts, CPAs, and experienced consultants with deep functional expertise in financial close, planning, reporting, and more.

Our team is your advantage

Our team is composed of top-tier talent from Big 4 accounting firms, industry experts, and seasoned consultants, averaging 15+ years of experience.

Best of both worlds

You deserve exceptional consulting without the hefty price tag. With SandPoint, you get world-class expertise and personalized service at boutique firm rates.

Partners for the long haul

Our collaborative approach ensures faster results and long-term success. We're committed to supporting your business well beyond project completion.

BlackLine insights

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Nikki Hartbarger–Senior Financial Close Consultant

Why You Need a BlackLine Partner

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Nikki Hartbarger–Senior Financial Close Consultant

Six Ways to Optimize BlackLine

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Curious how BlackLine can help you?

Do you have questions about BlackLine, are you curious about how it works, or wondering whether this is the right solution for you? Let's talk.

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