Alexis Business Advisory brings together accounting, tax, audit, risk and governance specialists under one roof — so your business gets joined-up advice from people who take ownership of the outcome.
Alexis Business Advisory was founded on a simple conviction: businesses deserve advisors who combine technical excellence with real, hands-on involvement.
Our team brings together more than 60 years of combined experience and professional designations across accounting, tax, internal audit and development finance — held with SAIPA, SAIT, the Institute of Internal Auditors and the Chartered Development Finance Institute.
Our partners have led finance functions, cleared audit backlogs, built risk and governance frameworks and advised boards across multinational, multi-entity organisations. We bring that same standard to every client — from owner-managed businesses to complex groups — and we stay close enough to actually make a difference.
We are a SAIPA-accredited practice and SAIT-registered tax practitioners, which means our work is governed by the professional, ethical and continuing-development standards of South Africa's recognised controlling bodies — and our clients deal with SARS, banks and funders through practitioners those institutions recognise.
Our focus is deliberate: small- and medium-sized businesses with ambition. Growing businesses face big-company problems — funding, compliance, controls, governance — long before they can afford big-company head office teams. We exist to close that gap.
We tell you what you need to hear, and we do things properly — even when it's harder. Trust is the whole business.
Technical depth and attention to detail in everything from a management account to a board presentation.
Partner-led means someone senior owns your outcome from start to finish. No hiding behind process.
Objective, evidence-based advice — the discipline of auditors and risk professionals applied to your benefit.
We work alongside you, learning your business so our advice fits your reality, not a template.
We turn complexity into plain language and clear numbers, so you can decide with confidence.
Every engagement follows the same discipline — so you always know where you stand and what comes next.
We start with your business, not our checklist — how you make money, where the pressure sits, and what growth needs to happen next. Advice that ignores your reality isn't advice.
We fix the foundations first: books brought current, returns filed, disputes resolved, backlogs cleared. You can't plan forward while the past is still open.
Then we build the infrastructure that protects you as you grow — reliable reporting, tax planning, internal controls and governance proportionate to your size.
With credible numbers and sound controls in place, we help you use them: funding applications, financial models, dashboards and board-level advice that turn ambition into a plan.
Qualified, experienced and personally invested in your success.
Tsepo leads the firm's accounting, financial management and development finance practice. Over 15+ years in senior finance roles across multinational, multi-entity groups — including at CFO level in a regulated financial services environment — he has built a career around a single problem: making the numbers hold up when someone outside the business is looking at them. Auditors, regulators, lenders and boards each ask a different question of the same accounts, and he has spent his career answering all four.
That experience runs from the technical to the strategic. He has taken finance functions that had fallen behind and brought them current, restored confidence with auditors and regulators where it had been lost, and rebuilt reporting so that executives could act on it rather than merely file it. Clients typically come to him at an inflection point — a deadline that cannot slip, a group structure that has outgrown its reporting, or a set of accounts that no longer explains the business.
“Small businesses don't fail for lack of ambition — they fail for lack of decision-grade financial information. My job is to give owners the numbers, the models and the funding story that turn ambition into growth.”
Sectors: financial services & wealth management, automotive, manufacturing, property, logistics, hospitality, marketing services, and development / donor-funded programmes.
Tavison leads the firm's internal audit, risk and governance practice. A Certified Internal Auditor with 20 years managing and performing internal audits across the private and public sectors, he designs risk-based audit plans, evaluates internal control systems, and assesses risk management and corporate governance processes — leading engagements from planning through to reporting to audit committees, and conducting investigations and due diligence assignments.
His career spans senior internal audit roles with advisory firms including SNG Grant Thornton, consulting engagements hosted by BDO and Crowe, and nearly a decade auditing a regional NGO and its funded partner organisations across the SADC region — giving him rare fluency in both corporate and donor-funded environments. He is passionate about re-engineering business processes, effective risk management and sound corporate governance.
“Controls are not there to slow a business down — they are what allow an owner to let go, delegate and scale without losing sleep. Every weakness we find and fix is a loss the business never has to suffer.”
Sectors: mining, property, medical schemes, higher education, forestry & state-owned enterprises, municipalities, retail, automotive and fuel.
Kagiso leads the firm's tax and treasury practice. A Professional Accountant (SA) and registered tax practitioner with 18+ years of experience, he is currently Tax & Treasury Manager for a group spanning the Southern, Central, East and West Africa, EMP and Middle East regions, overseeing tax compliance, tax planning, transfer pricing and cash & treasury management. His earlier roles across IDEMIA and PKF built deep strengths in financial reporting, annual financial statement preparation, VAT and PAYE, and SARS engagement — including objections, disputes and audits. He has completed both SAIPA and SAICA (CA) articles.
Kagiso knows the full SME compliance cycle from the inside: monthly accounting and management accounts, VAT, PAYE and income tax submissions, annual financial statement compilations and independent reviews, SARS registrations and dispute resolution, and B-BBEE verification preparation. Owners deal with him directly — and he deals with SARS so they don't have to.
“Tax should never be the reason a good business stalls. When your compliance is clean and your books tell the truth, doors open — with SARS, with banks, and with the customers who vet you before they trust you.”
Sectors: manufacturing, automotive, financial services, property, retail, professional services and non-profit organisations.
Khulani is an Internal Audit Practitioner with 7 years across internal auditing, risk management and compliance. He independently plans, executes and documents oversight reviews and assurance engagements, identifies control weaknesses and compliance gaps, builds risk registers, and conducts fraud investigations. He works to IIA Standards and governance frameworks including ISO 31000, COSO and King III & IV, with hands-on data-analytics skills across ACL, SAP GRC, TeamMate, CURA and IDEA.
Khulani has developed audit plans and comprehensive risk registers, conducted quarterly internal audits across every department of a multinational group, performed supplier, employee and client-related financial investigations, and audited health, safety, environmental and community compliance processes — contributing to monthly EXCO-level risk reporting. He is currently pursuing his master's degree in Internal Auditing.
“I take ownership of every engagement from planning to reporting. For a growing business, a clear view of its risks is not a luxury — it is the difference between reacting to problems and preventing them.”
Sectors: short-term insurance, mining, logistics, trading and public-sector entities.
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