Case Study: Towards Employment achieves 50% faster government billing and stronger audit controls with Sage Intacct

Towards Employment hires Sage Intacct to generate real-time insight

Towards Employment is a Cleveland-based nonprofit that provides job-readiness training, case management, and on-the-job experience through its Bloom Artisan Bakery, serving about 3,000 people and stewarding roughly $6M annually. The organization outgrew QuickBooks: it lacked internal controls and an adequate audit trail, required time-consuming manual cost allocations for grants, and needed a cloud-based system for remote staff access.

Working with RSM, Towards Employment implemented Sage Intacct as a true cloud solution to automate allocations, AP approvals, payroll imports, and multi-entity accounting. The switch cut monthly government billing time by 50%, reduced payroll import time by 80%, avoided hiring another FTE (about $45K/year), improved audit compliance and financial visibility, and freed the CFO to focus more on fundraising and strategic priorities.

Towards Employment

Faith Noble

Chief Financial Officer