Manuel Schiappa Pietra

Finance management software maker FreeBalance has opened a new location in Kosovo to better serve customers in Africa, Asia and Europe.

The Ottawa-based company said its new office and support centre in Pristina, Kosovo will help deliver better services and more accessible support hours to government customers, especially clients in Afghanistan, Mongolia, Sierra Leone, southern Sudan and Timor-Leste.

"We have worked closely with the government of Kosovo to ensure a successful FreeBalance implementation," said FreeBalance CEO Manuel Schiappa Pietra in a statement. "Kosovo provides us with the ideal geographical location to support customers in Africa, Asia and Europe. We look forward to the opportunity to provide a new level of service for our customers as we work together in support of public financial management projects around the world."

FreeBalance's software solutions support government modernization, fiscal decentralization and public finance reform. The Kosovo government is currently using FreeBalance's software to prepare its budgets and process payroll for more than 70,000 civil servants in all 30 of its municipalities.