CREST
Dependable administration behind well run businesses.
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Crest Corporate Services is an administration firm based in South Africa, focused on the functions that touch a business's people: employees must be recruited and looked after, payroll must run correctly every month, and the finances behind it all must be recorded and reconciled. These are exacting functions, and they are unforgiving of shortcuts.
We take them on. Each engagement is scoped in writing and run to documented procedures, with records that show what was done, when and by whom.
Our clients range from owner-managed businesses that want their HR and payroll handled dependably to established operations that prefer these functions administered at arm's length under clear instructions.
Because the work concerns people, their pay and their records, discretion is not an add-on. It is the starting condition of every engagement.
Services
HR Services
Support across the employee lifecycle: onboarding and offboarding, policy and procedure support, leave and absence management, and assistance with day-to-day people matters as they arise.
Human Resources Administration
The record-keeping behind the people function: employment contracts and letters, personnel files, benefits administration and the maintenance of complete, current and confidential employee records.
Recruitment
Recruitment handled end to end under our clients' instructions: role specification, candidate sourcing and screening, interview coordination, reference checking and offer administration.
Payroll Administration
Payroll run accurately and confidentially: salary and wage processing, deductions and remittances, payslip administration and the reconciliations and records that stand behind every pay run.
Finance & Accounting Support
Administrative support to the finance function: bookkeeping support, invoice and expense administration, account reconciliations and management reporting support, prepared to a standard that a client's appointed accountants can rely on.
Built on twenty years of operations
Crest is led by its founding director, a business operations professional with almost twenty years of experience in administration across a range of industries, with deep working knowledge of HR administration, payroll and financial record keeping.
That experience shapes the firm's approach: the understanding that people functions run on trust, that trust runs on accuracy, and that every file should be kept as if it will one day be read closely.
Service standards
Employee and financial information is handled on a need-to-know basis and never discussed, disclosed or reused outside the engagement it belongs to.
Pay, records and reconciliations are checked before they leave our hands. People notice when their pay is wrong; our work is done so that they never have reason to.
Every function we administer runs to a written procedure, so that the work is consistent regardless of who performs it.
Work is recorded as it is performed. The file should always be able to speak for itself.
Start a conversation
Tell us which functions you need handled and we will respond with a scoped proposal. All conversations are handled in strict confidence.