How BUILD Renewables Strengthened Financial Visibility with Sage Intacct
— and What That Could Mean for Your Construction Business
BUILD Renewables shares how moving to Sage Intacct transformed the way their finance team operates. Like many growing organisations, they had reached a point where spreadsheets, disconnected systems, and manual reporting were slowing decision-making and limiting visibility.
Their transition to Sage Intacct gave them real-time financial insight, streamlined processes, and the ability to scale with confidence. It is a story we see often at ETHOSystems: businesses outgrow their legacy accounting systems and need a financial platform built for complexity, growth, and industry-specific demands.
Why Sage Intacct Matters for Construction and Project-Based Businesses
Sage Intacct is a cloud-native financial management platform designed to provide deeper visibility, automation, and scalability than traditional accounting software. For construction companies, the Construction edition delivers industry-specific capabilities that address the real challenges contractors and developers face every day.
This includes robust job costing, Work in Progress tracking, revenue recognition, project billing management, and multi-entity consolidations. It also integrates with leading construction operational platforms, creating a connected technology ecosystem that supports both finance and field teams.
The result is a single source of financial truth that enables better decision-making across the organisation.
Common Challenges We See in Growing Construction Firms
At ETHOSystems, we frequently work with construction businesses experiencing challenges such as:
• Heavy reliance on spreadsheets to track project financials
• Delays in reporting that prevent timely decisions
• Limited visibility into job profitability until it is too late
• Manual processes consuming valuable finance team capacity
• Difficulty managing multiple entities or complex ownership structures
If any of these resonate, it may be time to evaluate whether your current financial system is supporting your growth — or holding it back.
What Makes Sage Intacct Different
Sage Intacct’s strength lies in its dimensional reporting architecture, which allows finance teams to analyse data by project, location, entity, department, or any other operational dimension without restructuring the chart of accounts.
For construction firms, this means real-time insight into project performance, automated billing and revenue recognition workflows, and consolidated reporting across entities without manual manipulation.
It also provides the flexibility to adapt as your business evolves, whether that means expanding into new markets, acquiring additional companies, or increasing project volume.
Is Sage Intacct the Right Fit for Your Organisation?
Not every organisation requires a system at this level — but many outgrow entry-level accounting tools sooner than expected. Sage Intacct is particularly well suited for:
• Construction firms managing multiple concurrent projects
• Businesses requiring strong WIP and revenue recognition controls
• Organisations with multi-entity or multi-location structures
• Leadership teams seeking real-time financial insight
• Companies planning for growth, acquisition, or expansion
The best way to determine fit is to evaluate your current reporting limitations, process inefficiencies, and future growth plans.
Explore Sage Intacct Construction at Your Own Pace
If you would like to see how Sage Intacct supports construction businesses specifically, Sage offers a self-guided interactive product tour.
You can explore the Sage Intacct Construction self-driven tour here:
https://www.sage.com/en-us/sage-business-cloud/intacct/resources/product-tours/construction/
This walkthrough provides a practical look at dashboards, job costing capabilities, financial reporting, and project visibility tools.
How ETHOSystems Can Help
Selecting and implementing a financial platform is not just a software decision — it is a strategic one. At ETHOSystems, we help organisations evaluate system fit, design financial processes aligned to operational goals, and implement Sage Intacct in a way that drives measurable results.
If you would like to discuss whether Sage Intacct is the right solution for your construction business, our team would be happy to have that conversation.
