Recruiting the Best Digital Capabilities with Sage Intacct
Percipient’s Katie Maw examines how Sage Intacct is enabling recruiters to access greater intelligence,
channel agility to react to evolving markets, and instil scale for growth.
The recruitment industry continues to face a multi-faceted set of challenges in 2025. From a global skills shortage and economic uncertainty to compliance and fee pressures, a need for 360-degree visibility of the entire organisation has never been greater.
And while the adoption of new technology is often cited as an additional challenge, it does, in fact, represent the predominant lever from which to address these dynamics, mitigating complexity and maximising opportunity.
Introducing Sage Intacct
Sage Intacct allows recruitment firms to oversee and analyse performance, which in a market subject to daily fluctuations and adjustments in demand, is paramount.
In the face of increased competition, Sage Intacct represents a genuine USP, delivering the transparency, intelligence and agility from which to help recruiters pivot and capitalise on opportunities much faster than their legacy system-bound peers.
With its project-based accounting capabilities to track different revenue streams for temp versus permanent placements, and intercompany functionality to support trade-offs and interdependencies across the two, Sage Intacct is aligned with the needs and nuances of recruitment operations, irrespective of size and market exposure.
Next Level Operational Visibility
According to our customers in the sector, one of Sage Intacct’s most significant benefits is its ability to easily integrate with third-party applications such as CRM, billing and timesheet management. Leveraging Percipient Cloud Connect, it seamlessly links to these applications to provide a comprehensive view of operations, encompassing key data from across the entire business.
This allows management teams to observe operations, to gain a live view of which areas are performing and which require attention, while also extending the platform to division owners, affording them autonomy over their own P&L. This empowerment can support an understanding of trends and anomalies to inform decisions and help channel resources and efforts into those areas most likely to yield success.
Bridging the Gap Between Intent & Outcomes
Digital is undoubtedly disrupting the recruitment industry, opening up new areas of potential and boosting performance. When deploying it for maximum ROI and long-term advantage, working with a partner who understands the scope and depth of these challenges can bring significant value, bridging the gap between intuition, intent, and outcomes.
The automation, intelligence and industry-focused capabilities that Sage Intacct brings to recruiters truly expand what’s possible and supercharge teams to achieve even greater performance for future growth.
Sage Intacct Features for Recruitment
Here are just some of the features within Sage Intacct bringing value and helping recruiters to maximise efficiencies, drive visibility and expedite performance:
Integration
With Percipient Cloud Connect, a lightweight API middleware solution, recruiters can integrate with CRM and Timesheet applications for comprehensive, seamless data flow.
Multi-Entity Management
For recruitment organisations with a complex footprint, several divisions or companies operating within an umbrella or parent company, Sage Intacct’s multi-entity capabilities make it easy to account for individual entities, as well as view these as part of consolidated accounts.
Reporting
Leveraging dimensions for in-depth performance analysis, P&L can be viewed across live dashboards. This can be done at a high level or drilled down into detail around a specific area with just a few clicks, allowing for the examination of particular areas, such as permanent and temporary recruitment, executive appointments, and vertical industries, to understand trends better and identify potential areas of profit. This, in turn, supports regulatory compliance.
Ease of Implementation
In any services-led business, it’s easy to neglect IT projects in favour of activities with a more direct and immediate return. For this reason, IT projects are often delayed due to perceived disruption and lengthy deployments.
While this was typical of traditional on-premise implementations, Sage Intacct is easy to deploy, with an average project taking just 10-12 weeks and some much less. A recent project took just seven weeks, and the customer reported not only improved financials but also a seismic cultural change focused on innovation. It’s truly substantial ROI at play.
Scale
Because Sage Intacct is cloud-based, with new functionality updates delivered quarterly, you will always be on the very latest version. Its ability to support large volumes of transactions, dimensions, and entities brings true scale, future-proofing, and de-risking your digital investment. In a sector experiencing significant M&A activity alongside organic growth, the right digital core is crucial.
Sage Intacct Recruitment Industry Specialists
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