Finance
Taking care of business
Colleague recruitment software enables you to automate routine back-office tasks with speed and accuracy. It is designed to cater for all possible variations in timesheet management, invoice generation and payment tasks and will automatically generate audit trails attached to client and candidate records. Features such as Online timesheets can substantially improve your efficiency by removing the need for the collection and keying in of timesheet data and a full Business Intelligence suite will help you to forecast your revenues and manage your finances.
Colleague software is easily configured to work alongside industry standard accountancy and payroll software such as Sage to provide a powerful accounts management system for recruitment businesses of all shapes and sizes. If you’re a multi-office, multi-national corporation with people in London, Lisbon and Lahore, Colleague software can manage all of your business critical finance tasks using a single centralised database connected to all of your offices. If, on the other hand, you’re currently a small but perfectly formed start-up in Birmingham, Colleague has all the tools you need to simplify your finance function and free up more of your time to build your business.
We have been developing recruitment software solutions since 1995. As certified Microsoft Partners we have demonstrated the highest level of competence and expertise with Microsoft technologies and have the closest working relationship with Microsoft. Why’s that so important? Because when you entrust Colleague to provide you with a system to manage your most business critical tasks you know we’re going to provide a robust and stable solution which is second to none.
Tailor made invoices
All clients like to be invoiced in their own particular ways. Some like consolidated invoices for all your placements, other clients like them invoiced individually. Some like to be billed to the last day of the month, others like to be billed four weekly. Some like expenses included, others don’t. Some like to be billed in Sterling, others in Euros or Dollars. Clients don’t mean to be awkward. They just like things done their own way. Colleague doesn’t mind how your clients like their invoices. Choose the options, hit the button and it does the hard work for you. Easy.
Missing in action
Timesheets go missing. Essential though they are to getting your invoices out and your placements paid they do have an annoying habit of turning up late or just skipping off completely. Online timesheet processing can prompt candidates to fill in their timesheets securely via the internet and for that data to be checked and stored ready for when you create your invoices. No missing forms, no mistakes keying in data, just fast, accurate timesheet management and happy clients and candidates.
No more devils in the details
Because Colleague recruitment software has been designed and built by people who have themselves run recruitment companies it caters for all the little details which could otherwise make invoicing an administrative nightmare. For instance, there are fields for unlimited overtime rates, functions to allow for lower commission rates on contract extensions, functions for commission splits and rebates, recurring charges and staggered invoices. You can even pay and bill in different currencies if you want to. Colleague has it all covered.
Safe and secure
Your database will hold sensitive information such as candidate’s bank details so it’s important to know it’s safe and secure. As well as protecting your data with the latest security measures Colleague allows you to set up user groups within your company to limit access to the database for certain types of information and you can configure two-stage authorisation processes for critical tasks like BACS payments.
Multi company set-ups
These days a recruitment business can actually be made up of several companies. If that sounds like you, Colleague can set up a database for each different company but we’ll only charge you for one Colleague license for each of your users. We don’t think it’s fair to make you pay two or three times for the same software just because you’ve got several names above the door.
Running the numbers
Colleagues Business Intelligence suite enables you to generate reports about every aspect of your company’s performance. For example, forecasting tools can look at your consultant’s workflow and history and calculate your future revenue giving you essential information for planning and helping you to identify opportunities for growth.
