Percipient: Recruiting the Best Digital Capabilities with Sage Intacct

Percipient’s Katie Maw looks at how Sage Intacct is helping recruiters to access greater intelligence, channel the 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 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 to mitigate complexity and maximise 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 say, 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 major 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 potential in new areas and boosting performance. In deploying it for maximum ROI and long-term advantage, working with a partner who understand the scope and depth of these challenges can really bring value, bridging the gap between intuition and intent and outcomes.  

The automation, intelligence and industry-focused capabilities that Sage Intacct brings to recruiters truly expands what’s possible and supercharges 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 Specialists 

Contact Percipient at info@percipient.co.uk to learn how they’re supporting their recruitment customers with digital transformation initiatives and discover how they can do the same for you.