Clearsulting: Your record-to-report go-to
Are your financial close processes holding you back? It’s time to embrace a culture of continuous improvement, engage and empower team collaboration, and strengthen your technology ecosystem. And BlackLine might just solve your problems—connecting your processes and reducing your reliance on distributed resources.
If you’re already using BlackLine, don’t discount that your processes will change over time with new features released every quarter. When it’s time to take a closer look and unlock exciting ROI, we’re here.
- Industry panel session
Curing the Chaos: BlackLine for Life Sciences & Healthcare
Monday, September 8th | 3:00 PM PT
Life sciences and healthcare organizations face mounting pressure to manage cost, ensure compliance, and support innovation, all within a highly regulated and rapidly evolving landscape. In this joint interactive session with Clearsulting, we will learn how Quest Diagnostics is driving transformation through automation and control.
Learning objectives:
- Understand finance and accounting trends impacting pharma, medtech, and healthcare providers
- Identify key challenges such as regulatory compliance, M&A complexity, and fragmented systems
- Explore BlackLine use cases that are delivering greater efficiency, accuracy, and readiness for growth
- Client speaking session | Starbucks
Brewed for Efficiency: Starbucks’ Journal Entry Automation
Monday, September 8th | 4:00 PM PT
Join this session to learn how Starbucks, a previous Modern Accounting Award winner, advances journal entry automation by connecting Journal Entry, Transaction Matching, and Account Reconciliation. Starbucks will showcase three types of Automated Journal Definitions with real-world use cases, offering practical insights to boost efficiency in your own finance operations.
Learning objectives:
- Understand use cases for Recons, Matching, and Data Source AJDs.
- Learn how to schedule AJDs for seamless automation.
- Discover best practices for naming, SQL statements, and efficient filtering.
- Client speaking session | LAZ Parking
Shifting Gears at LAZ Parking: From Manual to Modern
Monday, September 8th | 4:00 PM PT
Hear from LAZ Parking’s Director of Quality and Controls as they share how the organization overcame challenges across people, technology, process, and culture. Learn how LAZ transformed from having no reconciliations or compliance to ending the year with every balance substantiated—driving control, visibility, and growth along the way.Learning objectives:
- Tackle transformation by addressing challenges across people, process, technology, and culture
- Establish control and compliance starting from a zero-baseline environment
- Build a foundation for sustained, scalable success through automation and visibility
- Client speaking session | McKesson
Rx for Success: McKesson’s Approach to Future-Ready Financial Operations
Tuesday, September 9th | 1:45 PM PT
McKesson, a global leader in healthcare distribution and services, continues to raise the bar in financial operations. In this session, discover how the team expanded its automation strategy with Blackline’s Financial Reporting Analytics and Studio360 to streamline processes, reduce risk, and unlock greater efficiency. Learn how automation and enhanced reporting empowered McKesson to standardize reconciliations, free up valuable resources, and deliver transparency and visibility to all teams across the organization.
Learning objectives:
- Understand how Recon Optimization and Financial Reporting Analytics (FRA) improve visibility, scalability, and control
- Learn how McKesson uses Studio360 Integrate and Orchestrate solutions to automate complex manual tasks, increase reliability, and enhance user experience
- Discover how automation is driving consistency, efficiency, and transparency across McKesson’s financial operations
- Client speaking session | ExxonMobil
ExxonMobil: Fueling Finance Transformation
Tuesday, September 9th | 2:45 PM PT
ExxonMobil is embarking on a strategic, multi-year transformation, including a move to SAP S/4HANA, aimed at modernizing its finance operations. Join this session to hear directly from Finance Leaders about their journey.
Learning objectives:
- Discover why BlackLine is an early and strategic element of ExxonMobil’s finance modernization journey.
- Identify how ExxonMobil will support its modern accounting vision with a Center of Excellence approach.
- Hear what steps the company is taking to measure and enable success.
- Client speaking session | The Home Depot
The Home Depot: Building a BlackLine COE and Training Strategy
Tuesday, September 9th | 3:30 PM PT
Discover how The Home Depot is driving BlackLine adoption with a structured, role-based BlackLine University training program and a Center of Excellence focused on long-term transformation. Learn how their approach ensures accountability, supports daily operations, and enables continuous innovation.
In this session, you’ll learn how to:
- Build role-based training programs using BlackLine University
- Promote training compliance to strengthen platform adoption
- Structure a Center of Excellence to support scale and continuous innovation
- Speaking session with Equity Residential
Change is a Journey: Don’t Stop Believing (ft. Clearsulting)
Wednesday, September 10th | 11:25 AM PT
Transformation is more than a goal—it’s a continuous Wheel in the Sky, turning through shifting priorities, evolving teams, and emerging technologies. Sustaining momentum through that Journey is what sets lasting success apart. In this session, Equity Residential shares how their team, with help from Clearsulting, stayed the course through finance transformation—approaching change with Open Arms, time-tested strategies, and innovative tools like Level Up to spark adoption, strengthen executive alignment, and illuminate measurable business value.
Learning objectives:
- Discover how Equity Residential set themselves up for success—Faithfully locking in executive sponsorship and engagement across multi-phase transformation efforts
- Learn how to reignite purpose and reinforce the “why,” keeping your teams aligned when the Lights go down and challenges rise
- Explore practical approaches Clearsulting uses to help clients drive real impact—and sustain it for the Someday Soon, not just the now
- Implement the BlackLine platform
A tool like BlackLine can help your team define integrated processes and enhance data visualization and reporting. The result? More time for value-add, strategic activities. Whether it’s laying the foundation for, implementing, integrating, or enhancing your platform, we’re here.
Explore our BlackLine-based offerings.
- Optimize your platform and processes
Are you taking full advantage of BlackLine’s capabilities? If not, we can help change that by unlocking cutting-edge features, identifying and alleviating pain points, and providing fresh perspective. Best of all? There’s zero investment required.
Explore our optimization workshop.
- Rethink intercompany
Investing in intercompany process enhancement opportunities can help capture substantial benefits, like increased automation, minimized manual activity, reduced out-of-balance positions, improved quality, and cost savings. Among other things, you’ll also find it easier to analyze end-to-end trade flows and execute accurate taxing policies and transfer pricing agreements.
Learn about our approach to intercompany with BlackLine.
- See us in action
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