DE+I COMPANY OF THE YEAR (TIE)
BLACKLINE
Companies come to BlackLine because their traditional manual accounting processes are not sustainable. BlackLine’s cloud-based financial operations management platform and market-leading customer service help companies move to modern accounting by unifying their data and processes, automating repetitive work, and driving accountability through visibility. BlackLine provides solutions to manage and automate financial close, accounts receivable, and intercompany accounting processes, helping large enterprises and midsize companies across all industries do accounting work better, faster, and with more control.
BlackLine was founded in 2001 by Therese Tucker, the first VC-backed, female tech founder in Los Angeles to take her company public. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are deeply rooted in the company’s core values in service of its global workforce, its customers, and the communities in which its team works and lives. The BlackLine team strives to be constantly advancing a culture of inclusion that empowers employees to think, create, serve, and deliver in a workplace where employees can be conÿdent that they truly belong.
BlackLine leadership understands its employees all have unique and diverse needs, and its policies, benefits, and resources are intended to recognize and support the diversity of the company’s workforce. Its programs are designed to attract, develop, retain, and engage exceptional talent, and BlackLine continues to support this with a company-wide objective to strengthen its culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion to develop an agile, diverse, inclusive, and highly engaged workforce. Programs that advance this strategy include reducing unconscious bias in the workplace, increasing focus on recruitment in underrepresented communities, and supporting a diverse workforce. BlackLine also continues to support its Employee Resource Groups, which are made up of employee-led teams designed to support and foster connections among underrepresented groups, including women, people of color, LGBTQ+, and military veterans.