Keep It Simple Solutions

The back office your business hasn't got round to building.

KISS Consulting takes on the financial and administrative work that piles up behind a growing business — the debtors, the costings, the books, the systems nobody has had time to set up — and puts it in order. Engaged by the month or by the project.

Aged Debtors Summary

What lands in your inbox

Weekly · Monday
AccountCurrent306090+Total
Meridian Shopfitting48 20012 40060 600
Havenbrook Joinery21 75018 9009 30049 950
Delport Interiors7 20014 60031 80053 600
Ridgeline Manufacturing63 40063 400
Ashcombe Installations11 9004 50022 10038 500
Total145 25043 00046 00031 800266 050
Illustrative figures — not a client's records

Who it's for

Small and growing businesses without a full finance function — builders, shopfitters, manufacturers, labour brokers, owner-operators.

How we work

Remotely, anywhere in South Africa. Work runs to a fixed monthly cycle with agreed delivery dates, not on demand.

What it costs

Indicative rates are published below. Every engagement is scoped and quoted against the work actually in front of it.

01

Services

Three core · five on request

Eight services, all delivered remotely.

Take one service or the whole function. Most engagements start with a single pressing problem — a debtors book that has got away from the business, quotes that keep coming in under cost — and expand from there.

Core

Three services

Debtors & Cash Collection

Remote · monthly retainer

Money owed to a business is the slowest thing on its balance sheet to turn back into cash. This service works the ageing, issues the statements, and pursues what is outstanding — without damaging the customer relationships the business depends on.

You get: a monthly aged debtors report, statements issued on your cycle, follow-up on every overdue account, and a documented debtors process where none exists.

Project Costing & Quoting

Remote · per project or retainer

If a business quotes from memory, prices off last year's numbers, or keeps winning jobs that lose money, the problem is upstream of the quote. This service builds the costing that sits underneath it — materials, labour, margin, contingency — so the true cost of a job is known before a price is committed to.

You get: a costing sheet built to your trade, priced from your own technical drawings and specifications, plus the client-facing quotation off the back of it and early warning on cost risk while there is still time to act.

Built for builders, shopfitters, joiners, installers and small manufacturers.

Reconciliations & Transaction Processing

Remote · monthly retainer

Reconciliation is the work most small businesses are furthest behind on, because it is nobody's favourite job and nothing breaks immediately when it is skipped. Then year end arrives and eleven months of it happen at once.

You get: supplier invoices captured, transactions processed, and bank, credit card and creditor reconciliations completed on a monthly cycle — with any unmatched item queried while somebody still remembers what it was.

Worked inside your own accounting software, whichever you use. Your accountant or bookkeeper takes it from there for the trial balance, annual financial statements and tax.

Payroll processing can be included: payslips, hours, leave and commissions, up to and including the payroll reconciliation. Statutory submissions remain with your registered tax practitioner.

Also offered

Five services

Supplier RFQs & Procurement Support

Remote

Sourcing and comparing supplier pricing, preparing requests for quotation, and maintaining cost benchmarks so it is visible when a supplier's price has quietly drifted upward.

You get: comparable quotes side by side, a maintained benchmark of what you should be paying, and purchase order administration through to payment preparation.

We work inside whatever environment you already run — a corporate procurement portal, your own system, or email and spreadsheets. There is nothing for you to install or change.

Contractor Timesheet & Billing Administration

Remote · monthly cycle

Built for labour brokers, recruitment agencies, IT contracting houses and anyone billing clients off contractor hours. Timesheets collected, the late ones chased, reconciled against contracts, and invoices out on the cut-off date rather than a week after it.

You get: the full monthly billing cycle run to deadline, with a reconciliation showing exactly what was billed against what was worked.

Asset Registers

Remote · built from your records

Tracking assets is easy to overlook when a business starts small — and painful when the accountant asks for the register or an insurance quote is needed.

You get: a counting sheet to work from, and a completed register built from your own records — purchase invoices, existing lists, photographs — with depreciation and insurance schedules, and something maintainable in-house afterwards.

Ongoing maintenance is available monthly or annually.

Owner Support Retainer

Remote · monthly retainer

A fractional personal assistant for an owner-operator. Diary and inbox, supplier and client correspondence, the paperwork that keeps slipping to the bottom of the list, and the recurring admin nobody else has picked up.

You get: a fixed block of hours each month against whatever is actually blocking you, handled with discretion — the role usually involves knowing more about the business than anyone outside it does.

Digital Filing & Admin Systems

Remote · digital records only

When the filing has outgrown wherever it started, this service rebuilds it — around how the business actually works, not how a filing system is supposed to look.

You get: a folder structure, a naming convention and a document workflow, built in whichever storage system you already use and documented so your own staff can keep it running.

Digital records only. Paper filing is not part of this service.

02

Pricing

Indicative · every engagement quoted to scope

Published so you can budget before you pick up the phone.

These are a starting point, not a price list. What an engagement actually costs depends on the state of the records, the volume of work and the hours it genuinely takes. Every quote is written against a scope agreed with you first.

Start here — fixed fee, no retainer

Debtors Book Review — R1 500, five working days.

We take your ageing as it stands, work the book, and return a written assessment: what is recoverable, what is not, where the process is leaking, and what it would take to fix.

Yours to keep whether or not you engage us further. If you do go on to a retainer within 30 days, the R1 500 comes off the first invoice.

Book a review

Essential

R3 000/month

8 hours included

A single service, or an owner who needs a steady pair of hands a couple of days a month.

Core

R5 600/month

16 hours included

The usual starting point. Enough for a debtors book and a monthly reconciliation cycle together.

Extended

R9 750/month

30 hours included

A business running most of its finance function through us. Beyond 30 hours, quoted individually.

Other workIndicative
Reconciliations & transaction processing — under 100 transactions a monthfrom R1 950/mo
Reconciliations & transaction processing — 100 to 300 transactions a monthfrom R4 200/mo
Ad-hoc work, no retainerR450/hour
Retainer hours exceededR400/hour
Scoping review — credited against the engagement if awardedR1 500
Catch-up and clean-up work, asset registers, system setupquoted after scoping

How the hours work

Hours are tracked and reported monthly. At 80% of the included hours you are told, in writing, before the line is crossed — never after. Beyond that you either move up a tier or the overage is billed at the rate above. Unused hours do not roll over.

Why some things aren't priced here

Clean-up work is the honest example. A business that is "about six months behind" is sometimes eighteen months behind across two systems with no bank statements. Publishing a rate for that would set an expectation neither of us could hold, so it is scoped first and quoted properly.

Terms

Retainers are invoiced monthly in advance. Project work is quoted in writing before it starts. No VAT is charged — KISS Consulting is below the R2.3 million registration threshold, so the quoted figure is the figure.

03

How it works

No obligation to the first conversation

Four steps, then a monthly cycle you can set a calendar by.

01

Get in touch

Tell us what isn't working. A WhatsApp or an email is usually enough to establish whether this is the right fit.

02

Scope the work

We agree what's actually in hand — how many accounts, what state the records are in, what "done" looks like.

03

Get a quote

A written quote against that scope, with an engagement letter and a data-handling agreement covering how your records are treated.

04

The cycle starts

Work runs to the dates below, every month. You get the system afterwards, not just the result.

Our service commitments

01Enquiry acknowledged1 business day
02Written quote after the scoping call3 business days
03Client queries answered1 business day
04Debtor ageing circulatedweekly, every Monday
05Reconciliations complete — records received by the 1stby the 7th
06Monthly pack delivered — records received by the 1stby the 10th
07Hours report, with notice at 80% of the retainerwith the monthly pack

How the cycle works. Work here is scheduled rather than reactive. The dates above are committed and they hold every month, which is what lets you plan your own month around them. Genuinely urgent work is possible, quoted separately, and agreed before it starts. If what you need is somebody on call through the working day, we will say so on the first conversation rather than take the work and disappoint you in month three.

04

What you receive

Worked examples · illustrative figures

The actual documents, not a description of them.

Most firms in this market tell you what they do. These are the things that land in your inbox, shown with example figures so you know exactly what you are buying.

Aged Debtors Summary

Debtors & Cash Collection

Weekly · Monday
AccountCurrent30 days60 days90+ daysTotal
Meridian Shopfitting48 20012 40060 600
Havenbrook Joinery21 75018 9009 30049 950
Delport Interiors7 20014 60031 80053 600
Ridgeline Manufacturing63 40063 400
Ashcombe Installations11 9004 50022 10038 500
Total145 25043 00046 00031 800266 050

With it: a note on every account over 60 days — who was contacted, what they said, and what happens next.

Project Costing Sheet

Project Costing & Quoting

Per project
LineQtyUnitRateCostSell
Melamine board, 16mm34sheet61220 80827 050
Edging, ABS 2mm180m142 5203 276
Hinges, soft-close96ea383 6484 742
Drawer runners, 450mm24pair1453 4804 524
Labour — manufacture62hr18511 47016 058
Labour — installation26hr2105 4607 644
Contingency — 7%3 2764 294
Project total50 66267 588

Margin on this job: 25.0%. Priced from your drawings, with the cost risks flagged before you commit to a number.

Fixed Asset Register

Asset Registers

Once off, then maintained
AssetAcquiredCostRateAccum. dep.Book value
Panel saw — Altendorf03/2022184 00015%96 60087 400
Edgebander08/202396 50015%30 15866 342
Delivery vehicle — 1.5t01/2024289 00020%96 333192 667
Compressor, 500L06/202142 80015%27 38315 417
Office equipment (7 items)various61 20033%48 96012 240
Total673 500299 434374 066

With it: an insurance schedule at replacement value, and a counting sheet so your own staff can verify it annually.

Month-End Close Checklist

Reconciliations & Transaction Processing

Monthly · by the 10th
StepOwnerDueStatus
Bank statements receivedClient1stComplete
Supplier invoices capturedKISS3rdComplete
Bank reconciliationKISS5thComplete
Creditor reconciliationsKISS6thComplete
Debtors ageing reviewedKISS7thComplete
Unmatched items queriedKISS8thComplete
Monthly pack issuedKISS10thIn progress

You always know where the month stands. Anything waiting on you is marked, with the date it is needed by.

All figures above are illustrative examples, not real client data.

05

About

The firm and its record

KISS stands for Keep It Simple Solutions. That is the whole idea.

Businesses get complicated as they grow. Systems get bolted onto systems, the filing outgrows the filing cabinet, and the admin quietly becomes bigger than the person doing it. The books slip, the debtors age, the quotes get thinner, and the person least able to spare the time ends up doing it at eleven at night.

KISS Consulting exists for that point — where the work has got too big or too complex for the business to carry on its own, but does not yet justify a finance department. The approach is deliberately unglamorous: work the actual problem, then leave something simple enough behind that it keeps working without us.

Engagements are capped by design. We take on a limited number of clients so that each monthly cycle actually runs to deadline — which is the same principle applied to ourselves.

The principal

The firm is led by its principal — fifteen years in business administration, the last decade of it in finance, across financial services, logistics, legal, hospitality and design-led interiors. The current work is costing and procurement: reading technical drawings and pricing from them daily. English and Afrikaans, both fluent.

A full CV and contactable references are available to prospective clients on request. Ask for them by email and they will be sent through, usually the same working day.

The principal of KISS Consulting

Principal
KISS Consulting

15Years in business
administration
62%Improvement in
debtor age days
R18mMonthly billing
administered
185+Client accounts
managed

Track record

2025 — present Interior design & manufacture — full costing lifecycle, technical drawings priced to quotation, supplier pricing and production administration Current
2024 — 2025 Scientific services — invoicing, creditor reconciliations, asset register, credit applications, fleet and investment reporting Financial Administrator
2023 — 2024 IT contracting — timesheets and monthly billing for 80+ contractors, full debtors function from invoicing to collection R8.5m / month
2019 — 2023 Recruitment & staffing — accounts receivable across 185+ client accounts; took over the asset register and supplier reconciliations R18m / month · −62% age days
2011 — 2019 Legal, logistics & hospitality — invoicing, reconciliations and banking, payroll, customs documentation and the administrative systems underneath them Eight years

Systems

Pastel AccountingMicrosoft Excel Xero OnlineSage Payroll & HR Ariba (SAP)COUPA VTSD & ExcaliburParcel Perfect ZohoSharePointMS Office

Qualifications

National Certificate: Bookkeeping — ICB, SAQA ID 58375 Microsoft Excel Level 2 — The Training Centre

Certified copies of qualifications, a full curriculum vitae and professional references are available on request.

06

Contact

Pretoria East, Gauteng

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