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Finance Innovation Series
ABOUT THIS EVENT
Learn about tools and techniques to empower your future-ready F&A operations at Blackline’s Finance Innovation Series, 8-19 September.
Over the course of two weeks, join a variety of 1-hour webinar sessions that will help you navigate today’s evolving financial landscape.
- 20+ sessions led by industry leaders, BlackLine experts, and peers
- 1-hour interactive discussions + Q&A
- Critical topics like AI & Automation within the Office of the CFO, Building a Future Ready Team, and real-world use cases
- Curate your own agenda to focus on topics most relevant to you
- Earn up to 19 CPD/CPE credits for your professional development
This is your go-to virtual event for the latest in finance transformation – empowering you to be more efficient, accurate and intelligent in your financial operations.
Who Should Attend?
CFO * VP Finance * GM Finance * Finance Director * Head of Finance * Head of FP&A * Head of Finance Transformation * Controller * Finance Manager * Accountant
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Monday 8 Sept | 10:00am IDT | 11:00am HKT/PHT
The Future-Ready Platform for the CFO
Join us as we explore the future of accurate, efficient, and intelligent financial operations. We’ll discuss the current state of the industry, the challenges of digital transformation, and our vision for the future. We’ll unveil our innovation strategy and unique perspective on how AI will impact—and revolutionise—the F&A industry.
This session does not qualify for CPE/CPD points.
Monday 8 Sept | 12:00pm IDT | 1:00pm HKT/PHT
Building a Future-Ready Workforce with Talent
As business demands evolve, the need for an agile, skilled, and future-ready workforce is becoming even more critical. Join this session delivered by thought leader, Stephannie Jonovska, BlueScope Steel, to explore how organisations can develop strategic talent plans that align with business goals, foster continuous learning, and attract and retain top talent to drive long-term success.
Learning Objectives:
• Understand how to align talent strategy with organisational growth and innovation
• Learn best practices for fostering a culture of continuous learning and development
• Discover approaches to attract, engage, and retain a future-ready workforce
Webinar participants can earn up to 1 CPE credit in the Personal Development – Non-technical field of study.
Tuesday 9 Sept | 10:00am IDT | 11:00am HKT/PHT
How Financial Institutions Achieve Successful Digital Transformation
Financial institutions are under mounting pressure to modernise operations, meet evolving regulatory requirements, and deliver real-time insights, all while managing risk and maintaining control. In this interactive session, Deloitte will explore how leading finance organisations are addressing these challenges through process optimisation and automation.
Learning Objectives:
• Understand current finance and accounting trends impacting banks, credit unions, and other financial institutions
• Identify key challenges such as regulatory complexity, manual processes, and data integrity
• Explore real-world BlackLine use cases driving efficiency, accuracy, and control in financial institutions
Webinar participants can earn up to 1 CPE credit in the Business Management & Organisation – Non-technical field of study.
Tuesday 9 Sept | 12:00pm IDT | 1:00pm HKT/PHT
The Foundation of Future-Ready Finance: Process Re-engineering for Automation
As finance leaders navigate increasing complexity and growing pressure to deliver strategic value, the need for accurate, efficient, and intelligent financial operations has never been greater. Join experts from EY and BlackLine to explore the latest finance transformation trends among innovative organisations across Asia Pacific. This session will reveal why robust process re-engineering is the foundation for successful automation, facilitating a strong and future-ready financial environment.
Learning Objectives:
Discover why future-ready financial operations are now imperative.
Learn how strategic process re-engineering enables successful automation for a strong financial system.
Explore how leading companies enhance visibility, accelerate insights, and leverage technology for finance transformation.
Webinar participants can earn up to 1 CPE credit in the Business Management & Organisation – Non-technical field of study.
Wednesday 10 Sept | 11:00am IDT | 12:00pm HKT/PHT
Streamlining Financial Operations: An Overview of BlackLine Journal Entry and Journals Risk Analyser
Organisations estimate that 50% of month-end close tasks are related to journal entries. BlackLine is the only platform that combines comprehensive, AI-powered journal entry insights with the automation of the entire journal entry process, from creation and validation to review and posting. With BlackLine’s journal entry management solutions, Finance teams can ensure accuracy and compliance by providing a centralised platform for managing and visualising journal entries, significantly reducing the risk of errors and fraud while streamlining processes.
Learning Objectives:
• Understand best practices to accelerate journal entry automation, leveraging rules-based logic that standardises the process and layers preventative controls throughout for audit-ready processes
• Learn how unifying data across systems and ERPs contributes to streamlined processes and increased insights
• Uncover effective strategies for leveraging Journals Risk Analyser to identify key trends, gain valuable insights, and detect anomalies in manual journal entries
Webinar participants can earn up to 1 CPE credit in the Computer Software & Applications – Non-technical field of study.
Wednesday 10 Sept | 1:00pm IDT | 2:00pm HKT/PHT
Unlocking Efficiency: UltraTech Cement’s Journey with BlackLine and Deloitte
Discover how UltraTech Cement Limited, India’s largest cement manufacturer, partnered with BlackLine, Deloitte, and SAP to modernise their financial operations. Join this insightful session to explore the strategic collaboration between CIOs and CFOs that enabled UltraTech Cement’s successful process automation and centralisation of operations into a Global Shared Services Centre.
Learning Objectives:
• Understand the critical drivers required for successful financial transformation
• Discover how to build internal confidence and align stakeholders initially and throughout the transformation journey
• Gain valuable insights from real-world customer examples and experiences
Webinar participants can earn up to 1 CPE credit in the Business Management & Organisation – Non-technical field of study.
Thursday 11 Sept | 9:00am IDT | 10:00am HKT/PHT
Beyond ERPs and Spreadsheets: The Keys to Supercharging Your Financial Processes
Working with ERPs like NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics, JDE or others is a critical piece of an organisation’s financial operations success. But future-ready financial operations require more. Join leaders from Fusion5 and BlackLine to learn how leading companies surpercharge the capabilities of their finance teams with purpose-built technology to automate manual work, maintain control, and improve visibility.
Learning Objectives:
• Understand the importance of stabilising core accounting processes when working with ERPs
• Discover how month-end automation can streamline change management
• Explore strategies to increase flexibility and maintain visibility beyond the ERP and spreadsheets.
Webinar participants can earn up to 1 CPE credit in the Business Management & Organisation – Non-technical field of study.
Thursday 11 Sept | 11:00am IDT | 12:00pm HKT/PHT
Ask Me Anything – Process Optimisation: Strengthening your calculation processes
Spreadsheets often drive key accounting processes like allocations and allowance for doubtful accounts, but they come with risk, inefficiency, and audit pain. This session explores how to modernise logic-heavy calculations by replacing fragile spreadsheets with scalable, controlled, and auditable workflows.
Learning Objectives:
• Identify the risks and inefficiencies of spreadsheet-based calculations
• Explore approaches to optimize complex accounting logic
• Learn how to reduce errors and free up time for analysis and strategy
Webinar participants can earn up to 1 CPE credit in the Business Management & Organisation – Non-technical field of study.
Thursday 11 Sept | 1:00pm IDT | 2:00pm HKT/PHT
From Complexity to Clarity: ExxonMobil’s Global Finance Transformation with BlackLine
ExxonMobil, one of the largest publicly traded petroleum and petrochemical enterprises in the world, is on a strategic, multi-year transformation with multiple finance modernisation initiatives, including a move to SAP S/4HANA and a BlackLine implementation journey. Join this session with Clearsulting and ExxonMobil to hear how they’ve sequenced their journey, why BlackLine is an early and strategic element of the journey, and what steps ExxonMobil is taking to measure and enable success.
Learning Objectives:
• Discover best practices around achieving successful transformation, including breaking down departmental barriers and better understanding data and technical landscapes
• Gain insights around how a Centre of Excellence approach can support future-ready financial operations
• Explore how to prioritise and sequence finance modernisation initiatives to maximise impact and align with long-term goals
Webinar participants can earn up to 1 CPE credit in the Business Management & Organisation – Non-technical field of study.
Friday 12 Sept | 10:00am IDT | 11:00am HKT/PHT
Maximising Insights with BlackLine Dashboards
F&A professionals depend on dashboards because they provide real-time insights and visualisations that help teams monitor and manage their financial close, consolidation, and invoice-to-cash processes. BlackLine experts will demonstrate the value, ease of use, and functionality that enables informed decision-making and smooth financial operations. Join this session to:
• Explore the newly released Close Operations Dashboards and My Work Dashboards
• Learn to tailor dashboards to reflect relevant KPIs and metrics
• Understand best practices to leverage dashboards for increased visibility and collaboration
Webinar participants can earn up to 1 CPE credit in the Computer Software & Applications – Non-technical field of study.
Friday 12 Sept | 12:00pm IDT | 1:00pm HKT/PHT
A Unified Approach to Financial Close & Consolidation
Discover how BlackLine revolutionises traditional close and consolidation processes by streamlining and automating essential activities, from reconciliations to consolidation and management reviews. Learn how leading organisations leverage Financial Reporting Analytics to seamlessly integrate with upstream processes, enabling the swift generation of financial statements with comprehensive commentary and delivering clear, insightful analysis.
Join this session to:
• Explore solutions that unify close and consolidation activities
• Discover how achieving transparent analysis can enhance productivity
• Gain insight into the challenges of traditional record-to-report processes
Webinar participants can earn up to 1 CPE credit in the Computer Software & Applications – Non-technical field of study.
Monday 15 Sept | 9:00am IDT | 10:00am HKT/PHT
AI & Automation within the Office of the CFO
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming accounting – streamlining processes, surfacing insights, and freeing teams to focus on strategic work. But with this power comes responsibility. In this session, we’ll explore how BlackLine’s AI-powered capabilities are delivering responsible innovation and measurable value across financial operations.
Learning Objectives:
• Explore BlackLine’s AI-powered solutions and how they create tangible value across accounting processes
• Understand the principles of responsible AI and how BlackLine applies them to protect data integrity and reduce bias
• Identify ways to use AI to automate work, enhance accuracy, and free capacity for more strategic priorities
This session does not qualify for CPE/CPD points.
Monday 15 Sept | 11:00am IDT | 12:00pm HKT/PHT
Navigating APAC’s Economic Currents: Building Resilient Intercompany Operations
The APAC region is at the forefront of dynamic macroeconomic shifts, from evolving trade policies and inflationary pressures to diverse regulatory landscapes and fluctuating labour costs. These external forces are compelling businesses to fundamentally rethink their operating models, exposing internal fragilities, particularly within intercompany processes.
Join this session to:
• Delve into the critical macroeconomic trends impacting the APAC region
• Understand the direct implications for intercompany operations
• Identify strategies to build proactive, resilient intercompany foundations
Webinar participants can earn up to 1 CPE credit in the Business Management & Organisation – Non-technical field of study.
Monday 15 Sept | 1:00pm IDT | 2:00pm HKT/PHT
Managing Journal Entry Risk in the Record-to-Report Process
Journal entries are a critical component of the record-to-report process, but they’re also a common source of risk, inefficiency, and control gaps. Manual input, inconsistent processes, and limited visibility can lead to errors, delayed approvals, and audit challenges, slowing the close and compromising financial integrity. In complex intercompany environments, these issues are amplified.
This session explores common journal entry pitfalls, the widespread impact they have across financial close and intercompany, and how automation and intelligence can transform this high-risk area into a source of accuracy, efficiency, and intelligence
Identify key journal entry pain points, including manual input, limited controls, and delayed approvals, and understand their impact on speed, accuracy, and compliance
Understand how poorly managed journal entries can disrupt close timelines, intercompany transactions, and reporting accuracy.
Discover how BlackLine’s Journals Risk Analyser identifies anomalies and provides actionable insights for more accurate, efficient, and intelligent financial operations
This session does not qualify for CPE/CPD points.
Tuesday 16 Sept | 10:00am IDT | 11:00am HKT/PHT
Jumpstart Your Move to S4 with BlackLine and SAP
Discover how SAP’s RISE and GROW program, in partnership with BlackLine, accelerates financial transformation for organisations. This session will explore the benefits of integrating SAP’s robust ERP solutions with BlackLine’s leading solutions. Join us to learn how this powerful collaboration can accelerate your move to S/4 HANA.
Learning Objectives:
• Identify how to achieve incremental value and deliver quick wins
• Learn how to optimise ROI and build transformation momentum
• Improve balance sheet readiness and migrate with control
Webinar participants can earn up to 1 CPE credit in the Business Management & Organisation – Non-technical field of study.
Tuesday 16 Sept | 12:00pm IDT | 1:00pm HKT/PHT
From Go-Live to Game-Changer: Deepening BlackLine’s Impact
Transformation is more than a goal – it’s a continuous wheel, turning through shifting priorities, evolving teams, and emerging technologies. Sustaining momentum through that journey is what sets lasting success apart. Join this session led by Clearsulting to explore how leading finance teams approach finance transformation—improving efficiency, governance, and cross-functional collaboration, while avoiding losing momentum.
Learning Objectives:
• Learn how successful teams evolve their use of BlackLine to support broader finance transformation goals, reigniting purpose, and reinforcing the “why”
• Gain insights into how to maintain executive sponsorship and build a business case for continued transformation
• Explore practical strategies for scaling the adoption of existing solutions and embedding BlackLine into core finance operations, sustaining for the future, not just for now
Webinar participants can earn up to 1 CPE credit in the Business Management & Organisation – Non-technical field of study.
Wednesday 17 Sept | 9:00am IDT | 10:00am HKT/PHT
Rise Above Repetition: Automate Your Bank or Other Complex Cash Reconciliations
Discover how to make the most of your bank data by harnessing the power of the financial close platform—importing and enhancing data, automatically comparing transactions, recording recurring or adjusting journal entries, and ultimately bringing it all into your reconciliations for greater visibility and time savings.
Learning Objectives:
• Understand the BlackLine functionality and products that will enable end-to-end optimisation of your bank reconciliation process
• Discover key differentiators of a bank reconciliation process within Blackline compared to utilising built-in ERP functionality
• Discover the benefits of modernising your bank reconciliations
Webinar participants can earn up to 1 CPE credit in the Computer Software & Applications – Non-technical field of study.
Wednesday 17 Sept | 1:00pm IDT | 2:00pm HKT/PHT
How Godrej & Boyce Elevated Financial Operations with BlackLine and EY
Godrej & Boyce, a prominent Indian conglomerate with businesses spanning aerospace, aviation, defence, engineering, consumer goods, and more is known for its commitment to innovation and progress, not just for their customers, but for their finance operations. Join this session to discover how G&B partnered with BlackLine and EY to optimise operations for greater efficiency and effectiveness, transforming their reconciliation and matching processes and transitioning to a more centralised and streamlined model.
Learning Objectives:
• Leverage BlackLine solutions to enhance F&A process outcomes
• Explore successful strategies for automation in shared services
• Gain valuable insights from real-world examples
Webinar participants can earn up to 1 CPE credit in the Business Management & Organisation – Non-technical field of study.
Thursday 18 Sept | 9:00am IDT | 10:00am HKT/PHT
Looking Ahead: BlackLine’s 2026 Roadmap
The future is here. BlackLine’s cutting-edge technologies will continue transforming financial operations, streamlining processes, and achieving unprecedented efficiency. BlackLine experts will dive into the exciting AI-driven innovations and critical updates shaping the future of BlackLine’s product offerings and feature functionality, all powered by the robust BlackLine platform.
Learning Objectives:
• Discover how BlackLine is innovating for the Office of the CFO
• Learn about the products and features on BlackLine’s strategic roadmap
• Have the opportunity to gain insights, ask questions, and receive real-time answers from the BlackLine team
Webinar participants can earn up to 1 CPE credit in the Computer Software & Applications – Non-technical field of study.
Thursday 18 Sept | 11:00am IDT | 12:00pm HKT/PHT
Top Use Cases: How BlackLine Extends SAP Solutions
Discover how SAP and BlackLine deliver the gold standard for record-to-report, supporting over 1,200 SAP customers. This session will highlight top use cases—including Open Item Management, Automated Journal Entries, and Transaction Matching—that help finance teams improve accuracy, drive efficiency, and increase intelligence across critical processes.
• Understand how to simplify and automate open item clearing
• Learn more about end-to-end journal entry management and transaction matching
• Gain insights into benefits achieved, such as enhanced control, visibility, and automation over financial operations
Webinar participants can earn up to 1 CPE credit in the Business Management & Organisation – Non-technical field of study.
Thursday 18 Sept | 1:00pm IDT | 2:00pm HKT/PHT
Transforming Cash Flow with Invoice-to-Cash
Discover the transformative power of BlackLine’s Invoice-to-Cash platform, where people, processes, and data come together seamlessly. This session demonstrates how a unified approach to invoice-to-cash not only boosts cash flow predictability but also streamlines operations for superior financial outcomes.
Join this session to:
• Learn how to seamlessly integrate people, processes, and data
• Identify how to improve cash flow forecasting and operational efficiency
• Discover how to drive better financial results and data-driven decisions
Webinar participants can earn up to 1 CPE credit in the Computer Software & Applications – Non-technical field of study.
AGENDA
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 1:00pm | Registration & Networking |
| 2:00pm | Welcome Address |
| 2:05pm | Keynote 1: Unlock the full value of enterprise AI |
| 2:50pm | Keynote 2: Usher in the future of work with AI agents built for the enterprise |
| 3:20pm | Explore Activations |
| 3:50pm | Keynote 3: Embracing AI for lasting advantage: A comprehensive approach to transformation |
| 4:20pm | Keynote 4: Harness hybrid cloud to power AI value at scale |
| 4:50pm | Closing Remarks |
| 5:05pm | Think Networking |
SPEAKERS
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
Amazon Web Services offers over 200 fully featured services for computing, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 84 Availability Zones (AZs) within 26 geographic regions, with announced plans for nine more Availability Zones and three more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, and Spain.
Dataiku is the Universal AI Platform, uniting the technology, teams, and operations needed for companies to build intelligence into their daily operations, from modern analytics to Generative AI. Together, they design, develop and deploy new AI capabilities, at all scales and in all industries. Organizations that use Dataiku enable their people to be extraordinary, creating the AI that will power their company into the future. More than 700 companies worldwide use Dataiku, including leaders across industries including life sciences, logistics, retail, manufacturing, energy, financial services, software, and technology. With a strong focus on the Forbes Global 2000, Dataiku also supports non-profits and academic institutions through its AI-for-Good initiatives.
