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ClearOps Consult helps growing SMEs improve how work flows, how reporting is produced, how controls operate, and how management decisions are supported.
Many businesses reach a stage where growth creates more complexity than their systems can handle. Reporting becomes manual. Responsibilities become unclear. Controls become inconsistent. Important decisions are made with incomplete or outdated information.
ClearOps helps close that gap by building practical operational visibility: clearer workflows, stronger controls, better reporting, useful dashboards, and management systems that support better execution.
The ClearOps approach
Most operational problems are not caused by a lack of effort. They are caused by weak visibility, unclear ownership, fragmented reporting, inconsistent controls, or processes that no longer fit the size of the business.
ClearOps focuses on improving the practical systems that connect daily work to management decisions.
How engagements work
Discovery
We discuss the business challenge, current process, management need, and desired outcome.
Current-State Review
The selected process, workflow, reporting area, control issue, or management challenge is reviewed to understand the current steps, systems, responsibilities, and pain points.
Findings & Opportunities
Key inefficiencies, risks, control gaps, accountability issues, and improvement opportunities are identified.
Practical Output
Where appropriate, ClearOps develops a practical template, dashboard, SOP, tracker, approval matrix, action plan, or automation recommendation.
30-Day Roadmap
You receive a clear roadmap to guide implementation and further improvement.
Typical outputs
Reporting and Visibility
Management reporting pack
Cash flow forecast dashboard
Operational KPI dashboard
Management action tracker
Finance Operations
Month-end close workflow
Debtors and creditors review
Invoice and payment approval tracker
Audit readiness tracker
Controls & Accountability
Approval matrix and delegation of authority
Risk and control register
SOP and process documentation
Workflow ownership map
Consultant Profile
ClearOps is led by Johan de Swardt, a finance and operations professional with approximately 15 years of experience across financial management, management reporting, internal controls, business operations, manufacturing finance, budgeting, forecasting, audit preparation, and finance team leadership. This combination allows ClearOps to approach business improvement from both a financial control perspective and an operational execution perspective.
Johan combines financial discipline with operational systems thinking, helping businesses improve how information flows, how decisions are made, and how work gets executed.
He holds a BCom in Financial Management Sciences and is currently completing a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration, combining technical finance knowledge with broader business management, strategy, leadership, and organisational effectiveness.
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