BlackLine Honors Global Enterprise Leaders Transforming Financial Operations
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LOS ANGELES, Oct. 13, 2026 /CourierPR/ -- BlackLine, a financial operations platform provider, has announced the winners of its 2026 Modern Accounting Awards, recognizing six enterprise leaders that are redefining modern finance and accounting practices. These organizations have achieved significant operational breakthroughs by integrating unified data architectures, intelligent automation, and agentic workflows, streamlining their financial operations and reducing manual close hours.
One of the honorees, Booking Holdings, Inc., is transforming its finance operations to keep pace with the complexity of its global portfolio, which includes Booking.com, Agoda, Priceline, KAYAK, and OpenTable. By partnering with BlackLine, Booking Holdings is driving standardization and business-led automation to enhance efficiency and operational excellence across its finance organization.
Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) is another recipient of the award, focusing on transforming its financial close process within a highly regulated, large-scale global footprint. BMS replaced siloed, spreadsheet-heavy workflows with a unified digital command center, automating the majority of its balance sheet reconciliations and eliminating thousands of manual close tasks. As a strategic partner, BMS is actively piloting agentic workflows and expanding its use of BlackLine's Studio360 platform.
James Hardie, a leading provider of exterior home and outdoor living solutions, has standardized nearly 500 global finance users on BlackLine under its unified "One Hardie" vision. The company has modernized its end-to-end financial operations by adopting Studio360, rolling out Invoice-to-Cash, and piloting Verity™ AI to establish automated, audit-ready governance across the combined enterprise.
LAZ Parking, LLC, the largest parking operator in the country, has managed decentralized operations across thousands of nationwide locations and 1,200 separate bank accounts. By modernizing its accounting foundation with the BlackLine platform, LAZ Parking automates tens of millions of transactions annually with an impressive daily auto-match rate. The company is also an early adopter of Verity Prepare, leveraging AI to drive speed, precision, and financial control.
Payoneer, a global provider of cross-border payments for millions of digital businesses, has replaced a legacy reconciliation solution with BlackLine’s unified platform. By linking transaction matching directly to automated journal entries, Payoneer has created a closed-loop ecosystem and is exploring further efficiencies with BlackLine’s agentic AI capabilities.
US Foods, a foodservice distributor partnering with approximately 250,000 restaurants and operators nationwide, has modernized its close management and governance during a company-wide finance operating model transformation. The distributor has driven a 160% surge in active user adoption and a 5x expansion in automated journal processing. Centralized task workflows, embedded SOX controls, and real-time leadership dashboards have enhanced project deadline alignment while drastically improving first-time accounting accuracy and close times.
The 2026 Modern Accounting Award recipients will be celebrated at BlackLine’s flagship annual conference, BeyondTheBlack™, taking place from November 16 to 18, 2026, in Orlando, Florida. Transformation leaders from each organization will present real-world case studies detailing their technical blueprints and operational results.
BlackLine, with more than 4,300 customers across multiple industries, provides the trust infrastructure where finance drives the agentic era with intelligence, integrity, and trust. The BlackLine Agentic Financial Operations Platform™, powered by Verity™ AI, is designed to govern AI at every step and ensure its integrity across the work of finance.