Professional Advantage is delighted to announce a new partnership with BlackLine, industry leading provider of financial controls and automation software designed to automate and control the entire financial close process.

As a cloud-based fast close tool, BlackLine is easily adopted by organisations without needing significant IT administration and has a quick ROI, saving time as well as improved process visibility and control.

Chris Murphy, Chief Revenue Officer, finance controls and automation software leader BlackLine said "BlackLine is pleased to partner with Professional Advantage,  a global leader in Financial Management and Business Systems. Professional Advantage's heritage, reputation and expertise in the business solutions space compliment BlackLine's core philosophy in delivering excellence to our customers - and providing value in Enhanced Finance Controls and Automation software solutions.

The partnership with Professional Advantage provides us both with an exciting opportunity covering multiple geographies, and we look forward to leveraging the strength of Professional Advantage's global reach to deliver industry leading cloud software and services."

Andrew Parsons, UK Country Manager Professional Advantage said "Professional Advantage is delighted to be partnering with such a highly regarded organisation such as BlackLine to expand our offering in the financial management software space. The rich functionality and domain experience offered by the BlackLine suite will assist our clients in streamlining and automating the monthly financial close process, while addressing one of the most manual, time consuming, and repetitive tasks in financial accounting.

With the BlackLine platform providing comprehensive Account Reconciliation and Transaction Matching solutions, we feel that this strategic partnership will significantly increase our capabilities and complements  our own development ethos in providing excellence in financial management. BlackLine's cloud based architecture and low complexity implementation allows Professional Advantage to provide clients with a platform to remove spreadsheet driven and intensive manual processes and return a very quick and obvious ROI."