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
| Account | Current | 30 | 60 | 90+ | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meridian Shopfitting | 48 200 | 12 400 | — | — | 60 600 |
| Havenbrook Joinery | 21 750 | 18 900 | 9 300 | — | 49 950 |
| Delport Interiors | — | 7 200 | 14 600 | 31 800 | 53 600 |
| Ridgeline Manufacturing | 63 400 | — | — | — | 63 400 |
| Ashcombe Installations | 11 900 | 4 500 | 22 100 | — | 38 500 |
| Total | 145 250 | 43 000 | 46 000 | 31 800 | 266 050 |
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.
Services
Three core · five on requestEight 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 Analysis & Recovery Planning
Remote · monthly retainer
Your money is sitting in other people's bank accounts, and most businesses cannot say how long it has been there. This service measures that, works out which accounts are actually at risk, and hands you a plan for getting it back — in the order that recovers the most, soonest.
You get: a monthly aged debtors report with your debtor days and how they have moved, a ranked action plan naming which accounts to work first and what to say, statements and reminder letters drafted ready for you to send, and a documented debtors process where none exists.
You keep the customer relationship — entirely. Every call, email and letter goes out from you, in your name, and we will tell you plainly why. Under the Debt Collectors Act 114 of 1998, anyone who contacts your customers to recover money on your behalf, for a fee, has to be registered as a debt collector. We are not, so we do not do that part — and we would rather say so than blur it. What we do is the part that decides whether the money actually comes back: measuring the book, working out who to approach and in what order, writing what you send, and tracking what comes of it. Where an account has gone past what that can achieve, the plan says so, and it goes to your attorney or a registered debt collector.
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 — which means reconciling the payroll register to the general ledger and the bank. We do not calculate, prepare, review or submit EMP201, EMP501, IRP5 or any other SARS return, and do not advise on the tax treatment of any payroll item. Those 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 followed up, 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.
Pricing
Indicative · every engagement quoted to scopePublished 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 — R3 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 R3 500 is credited in full across your first three invoices.
Book a reviewEssential
R3 400/month
8 hours included
A single service, or an owner who needs a steady pair of hands a couple of days a month.
Core
R6 600/month
16 hours included
The usual starting point. Enough for a debtors book and a monthly reconciliation cycle together.
Extended
R12 000/month
30 hours included
A business running most of its finance function through us. Beyond 30 hours, quoted individually.
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.
How it works
No obligation to the first conversationFour 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
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.
What you receive
Worked examples · illustrative figuresThe 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 Analysis & Recovery Planning
| Account | Current | 30 days | 60 days | 90+ days | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meridian Shopfitting | 48 200 | 12 400 | — | — | 60 600 |
| Havenbrook Joinery | 21 750 | 18 900 | 9 300 | — | 49 950 |
| Delport Interiors | — | 7 200 | 14 600 | 31 800 | 53 600 |
| Ridgeline Manufacturing | 63 400 | — | — | — | 63 400 |
| Ashcombe Installations | 11 900 | 4 500 | 22 100 | — | 38 500 |
| Total | 145 250 | 43 000 | 46 000 | 31 800 | 266 050 |
With it: your debtor days and how they moved this month, and a ranked plan for the accounts over 60 days — who to work first, what to ask for, and when to stop and escalate.
Project Costing Sheet
Project Costing & Quoting
| Line | Qty | Unit | Rate | Cost | Sell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melamine board, 16mm | 34 | sheet | 612 | 20 808 | 27 050 |
| Edging, ABS 2mm | 180 | m | 14 | 2 520 | 3 276 |
| Hinges, soft-close | 96 | ea | 38 | 3 648 | 4 742 |
| Drawer runners, 450mm | 24 | pair | 145 | 3 480 | 4 524 |
| Labour — manufacture | 62 | hr | 185 | 11 470 | 16 058 |
| Labour — installation | 26 | hr | 210 | 5 460 | 7 644 |
| Contingency — 7% | — | — | — | 3 276 | 4 294 |
| Project total | — | — | — | 50 662 | 67 588 |
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
| Asset | Acquired | Cost | Rate | Accum. dep. | Book value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Panel saw — Altendorf | 03/2022 | 184 000 | 15% | 96 600 | 87 400 |
| Edgebander | 08/2023 | 96 500 | 15% | 30 158 | 66 342 |
| Delivery vehicle — 1.5t | 01/2024 | 289 000 | 20% | 96 333 | 192 667 |
| Compressor, 500L | 06/2021 | 42 800 | 15% | 27 383 | 15 417 |
| Office equipment (7 items) | various | 61 200 | 33% | 48 960 | 12 240 |
| Total | — | 673 500 | — | 299 434 | 374 066 |
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
| Step | Owner | Due | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bank statements received | Client | 1st | Complete |
| Supplier invoices captured | KISS | 3rd | Complete |
| Bank reconciliation | KISS | 5th | Complete |
| Creditor reconciliations | KISS | 6th | Complete |
| Debtors ageing reviewed | KISS | 7th | Complete |
| Unmatched items queried | KISS | 8th | Complete |
| Monthly pack issued | KISS | 10th | In 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.
About
Led by Tinika Janse van RensburgKISS 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
KISS Consulting is Tinika Janse van Rensburg — one experienced finance administrator, working with a small number of clients. That is the whole firm, and it is deliberate: it is why the number of engagements is capped, and it is why the delivery dates hold.
Fifteen years in business administration, the last decade of it in finance, across financial services, logistics, legal, hospitality and design-led interiors — including full-cycle costing worked from technical drawings, supplier pricing and procurement. Work is done in English; Afrikaans is no barrier.
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.
Tinika Janse van Rensburg
Principal
administration
in-house at a
staffing group
that book
monthly, in IT
contracting
What this adds up to
Debtors that actually come back
A book of 185+ client accounts billing R18m a month, worked weekly rather than reported on monthly. Most of the value is in knowing which accounts are genuinely at risk and which are simply noisy — and in working them in that order.
Costing that holds its margin
The full costing lifecycle in design and manufacture: technical drawings read and priced to quotation, supplier pricing kept current, production administration underneath it. A quote is only ever as good as the cost built into it.
Billing that leaves on the cut-off date
Timesheets for 80+ contractors collected, followed up, reconciled against contracts and invoiced monthly — R8.5m a month, out on the date rather than a week after it. Late billing is the cheapest cash-flow problem there is to fix.
The machinery underneath
Asset registers, creditor reconciliations, payroll, credit applications, customs documentation. None of it breaks anything immediately when it is skipped, which is exactly why it gets skipped, and why year end then takes three weeks.
Where this has been done
Systems
Qualifications
Certified copies of qualifications, a full curriculum vitae and professional references are available on request.
Contact
Pretoria East, GautengTell us what isn't working.
We'll tell you honestly whether we can help. There is no charge for the first conversation and no obligation after it.
067 708 1132 · tinika@kissconsulting.co.za
Calls by arrangement — before 8am or after 5pm on weekdays, or any time on WhatsApp. Work here is scheduled rather than on demand, which is what keeps the delivery dates honest.
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Legal & data
POPIA · PAIA · ECT ActWhat we hold, why, and what you can ask us to do about it.
We ask clients to hand over bank statements, debtors books and payroll data. It would be odd to ask for that without saying plainly how it is handled.
Firm details
Trading name: KISS Consulting — Keep It Simple Solutions
Legal status: A sole proprietorship owned and operated by Tinika Janse van Rensburg. Contracts are concluded with Tinika Janse van Rensburg trading as KISS Consulting.
Address: Boschkop, Pretoria East, 0081, South Africa
Email: tinika@kissconsulting.co.za · Telephone: 067 708 1132
Website: kissconsulting.co.za
Services: financial and operational administration — debtors analysis and recovery planning, project costing and quoting, reconciliations and transaction processing, supplier RFQs and procurement support, contractor timesheet and billing administration, asset registers, owner support, and digital filing systems. All delivered remotely.
VAT: KISS Consulting is not registered for VAT and does not charge VAT. Turnover is below the R2.3 million compulsory registration threshold.
Information Officer: Tinika Janse van Rensburg, registered with the Information Regulator under registration number 2026-066043, effective 1 September 2026. Reachable at the email address above, and verifiable on the Regulator’s eServices portal.
Privacy notice
Last updated September 2026
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What we receive when you contact us. Once you send that message, we hold whatever you chose to include — typically your name, your business, your contact details and a description of your problem. We process it to answer your enquiry and, if it goes further, to prepare a quote. The lawful basis is our legitimate interest in responding to you, and steps taken at your request before entering a contract.
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How long we keep enquiries. Twelve months from our last contact with you, unless you become a client — in which case the engagement records are kept for seven years, as tax and company legislation requires.
Your rights. Under POPIA you may ask what personal information we hold about you, ask us to correct or delete it, and object to our processing it. Write to tinika@kissconsulting.co.za. You may also complain to the Information Regulator: enquiries@inforegulator.org.za, 010 023 5200.
Security. Devices are encrypted and password-protected, accounts use multi-factor authentication where it is offered, and client records are backed up in encrypted form. Payroll data and banking details are never sent as unprotected email attachments.
Client data — our role is narrower than it looks
When we provide services to a business client, we process personal information on that client's behalf. Under POPIA we are an operator; the client remains the responsible party.
That distinction matters if you are, for example, an employee of one of our clients whose payroll we process. We have no authority to release, correct or delete that information on our own account — those decisions belong to our client. Requests about it should go to them, and if one reaches us we will pass it on and tell you we have.
Client engagements are covered by a written operator agreement, as POPIA section 21 requires. It commits us to appropriate security measures, to processing only on the client's documented instruction, to notifying them of a security compromise as soon as reasonably possible and in any event within 24 hours of becoming aware of it, and to returning or destroying their records at the end of the engagement.
Access to information (PAIA)
The Promotion of Access to Information Act gives you a right to request records we hold. Our PAIA manual sets out the categories of records held, how to make a request, the prescribed fees, the timeframes, and the grounds on which a request may be refused.
The manual is published at kissconsulting.co.za/paia-manual. Requests go to tinika@kissconsulting.co.za. Note that records we hold on behalf of clients are subject to mandatory protection as third-party confidential and commercial information.
What we are not
Not a registered tax practitioner. KISS Consulting is not registered under section 240 of the Tax Administration Act. We do not give tax advice, do not complete or assist in completing returns for submission to SARS, and do not submit returns on any client's behalf. We prepare the accounting records your registered tax practitioner works from.
Not a financial services provider. We are not authorised under the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act and give no advice on investments, insurance, retirement or any other financial product.
Not an audit or assurance service. Our work is not an audit, an independent review, or any other assurance engagement, and expresses no assurance. We do not undertake to detect fraud or irregularity.
Not a debt collector. KISS Consulting is not registered under the Debt Collectors Act 114 of 1998 and does not collect debts. We do not contact your customers, at all — we analyse your book, rank the accounts, draft what you send, and report on what comes back. Every contact with a customer is made by you, in your own name. We do not receive, hold or bank money owed to you, do not issue letters of demand, and do not institute or threaten legal proceedings. Where an account needs more than analysis and planning, we say so and it goes to your attorney or a registered debt collector.