Last week at BeyondTheBlack™, BlackLine’s annual global conference of accounting and finance leaders, winners of the 2025 Modern Accounting Awards were announced. The award celebrates organizations that have fully embraced future-ready financial operations, demonstrated exceptional leadership, rapid time to value, and lasting impact using BlackLine’s market-leading platform.
Recipients of this year’s award shared their transformation journeys at the event. Award winners include: American Express Global Business Travel (AMEX GBT), Cavco Industries, and Wendy’s Company, some of the world’s most respected brands. Honorees have each driven remarkable outcomes through strategic finance transformation.
BlackLine is known for empowering the Office of the CFO to Realize Future-Ready Record-to-Report Processes, Financial Close and Compliance Automation, and Breakthrough Intercompany Operations.
Owen Ryan, Co-CEO and Chairman of the Board at BlackLine shared more about how winners are leading the way in financial transformation saying:
“They exemplify the mindset of the future of finance: bold, technology-enabled, and relentlessly focused on strategic value. Their results reinforce what we know to be true-BlackLine is the platform of choice for finance and accounting leaders committed to lasting transformation.”
Award Winner Stories
American Express Global Business Travel
Leveraging a broad suite of BlackLine solutions AMEX GBT enhances automation, strengthens its SOX control environment, and drives global efficiency. They used the BlackLine Center of Excellence to deliver year-to-date: 6 FTEs redeployed through reconciliation enhancements, journal automation, and reporting dashboards. They’ve already achieved a 60% auto-certification of reconciliations and over 90% automatching in high-volume transactional reconciliations, with ongoing journal automation projected to automate 50% of manual journal entries.
Cavco Industries
A decade-long customer of BlackLine, Cavco Industries, built a foundation of continuous growth and finance transformation. Consistently adopting BlackLine innovations, Cavco has progressively expanded its footprint, moving from foundational financial close automation to embracing our latest solutions, including the recent addition of Financial Reporting Analytics.
Wendy’s Company
A global enterprise, Wendy’s, replaced its legacy systems with BlackLine, deploying Account Reconciliations and Transaction Matching streamlining operations, reinforcing compliance, and unlocking new efficiencies at scale.
For a deeper look at these award winning customer stories visit the BlackLine press release: BlackLine Celebrates Top Companies Driving the Future of Financial Operations (September 8, 2025).
What This Means for ERP Today
- CFOs that want to transform financial operations, setting a foundation for the future, can find opportunities to drive outcomes starting with the financial close and record-to-report.
- BlackLine offers a future-ready platform for the Office of the CFO that delivers rapid time to value.
- Customer achievements of American Express Global Business Travel, Cavco Industries, and Wendy’s offer good benchmark examples of what can be achieved in the financial transformation journey.
