KPMG and BlackLine

Cloud-based, record-to-report solution

The record-to-report (RTR) process involves collecting, closing, and reporting a company's financial data at the end of each reporting period. Traditional finance organizations often face significant friction throughout this cycle due to manual processes and disconnected workflows.

Does this sound familiar? At the end of each reporting period, your finance team is buried in a sea of spreadsheets, manually exporting data and tracking tasks with disconnected checklists. Leadership has little to no visibility into the close process, making it impossible to identify bottlenecks until deadlines are missed. Instead of acting as strategic partners to the business, your finance professionals are stuck in a reactive cycle of chasing data and reconciling discrepancies.

KPMG and BlackLine help organizations modernize the RTR process through AI-enabled automated reconciliations, standardized controls, and streamlined intelligent close operations. By reducing manual effort and increasing transparency across the close process, organizations can move beyond spreadsheet-driven activities and reactive issue resolution toward a more controlled, efficient, AI-powered, and insight-driven finance function.

Why KPMG + BlackLine matter to a CFO

By implementing BlackLine to automate manual touchpoints and modernize reconciliations, KPMG helps transform the finance function from a transactional cost center into a strategic partner. Organizations can accelerate close processes, strengthen governance, increase transparency, and enable finance teams to focus on higher-value activities.

Organizations can achieve:

A faster and more predictable financial close through automated AI-driven reconciliations, continuous accounting, and intelligent close capabilities.
Reduced risk and stronger governance with AI-enhanced controls and auditable workflows.
Lower audit effort and increased transparency through direct access to reconciliation histories and supporting documentation.
Greater strategic capacity for finance talent by reducing time spent on routine reconciliation activities and enabling a greater focus on AI-driven analysis and advisory work.
Real-time executive visibility and decision support through live dashboards that provide AI-generated insights into the status of the close and potential bottlenecks.

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Why KPMG

With deep record-to-report knowledge, a strong alliance ecosystem, and established AI-driven transformation experience, KPMG helps organizations navigate complex finance transformations with confidence. Our business-led, digitally enabled approach, coupled with our advanced intelligent close capabilities, helps transition routine close tasks into continuous, automated, and insight-driven workflows that accelerate business growth within your finance function.

Our six key differentiators:

Connect your technology ecosystem: Integrate BlackLine across leading ERP platforms—including SAP, Oracle, and Workday—to deliver a unified, connected architecture for finance transformation.
Deliver holistic strategic assessments: Evaluate your current RTR environment to pinpoint inefficiencies, resolve compliance bottlenecks, and design a customized transformation roadmap harnessing the power of AI.
Provide ongoing optimization via managed services: Deliver continuous operational support, platform enhancements, and governance long after initial deployment for activities spanning administration and performance of the reconciliation process.
Apply cross-industry leading practices: Mobilize multidisciplinary specialists to tailor proven benchmarks, compliance frameworks, and sector-specific strategies to your business model.
Accelerate time-to-value with tested assets: Deploy standardized frameworks, templates, and pre-built integration accelerators to fast-track implementation and minimize business disruption.
Drive intelligent automation and autonomous close: Implement advanced AI and intelligent close capabilities to transition routine close tasks into continuous, automated, and insight-driven workflows.