Case Study: United Nations Federal Credit Union achieves 40+ hours saved per week with BlackLine

Shifting from Manual Accounting to Strategic Analytics After Saving 40+ Hours a Week

The United Nations Federal Credit Union (UNFCU) serves more than 200,000 members worldwide, but rapid growth and rising transaction volumes made its finance and accounting processes increasingly manual and time-consuming. Paper documentation, double data entry, and spreadsheet-based workflows were consuming staff time and limiting the team’s ability to focus on higher-value work, prompting UNFCU to look to BlackLine for finance automation.

BlackLine helped UNFCU automate key accounting tasks, starting with wire transaction auto-matching and later debit card transactions, using solutions such as Journal Entry to reduce paper and manual handling. The results were significant: UNFCU saved about 40 hours per week, auto-matched 99% of debit card transactions, and maintained accounting capacity without adding headcount. With BlackLine, staff shifted from manual reconciliations to strategic analysis that adds more value to the organization.

United Nations Federal Credit Union

David Gruss

Assistant Controller