Case Study: Informa achieves greater balance-sheet integrity and risk-based reconciliations with BlackLine

Increasing Balance Sheet Integrity & Creating a Risk-Based Approach to Reconciliations

Informa, a FTSE 100 international events, digital services and academic knowledge group with 10,000+ employees, doubled in size through acquisitions in 2016–2018 and inherited three different ERPs and shared-service organizations. That expansion left reconciliations fragmented and largely manual—thousands of spreadsheet workbooks, poor visibility, inconsistent policy and limited use of their existing BlackLine deployment.

Informa optimized BlackLine Account Reconciliations, brought data directly into the platform, upskilled staff through BlackLine training, and implemented a risk-based reconciliation policy with automation. The outcome was standardized controls and monthly risk reporting, a significant reduction in risk items, streamlined audits, and freed accounting teams to focus on higher-value, strategic work—greatly improving balance-sheet integrity.

Informa

Nick Redman

Head of Global Process Owner