Our Story
MISFITS FIGHTING FOR MISFITS.
Trusted by Australia’s most ambitious founders.
Why Nexist exists
WE WATCHED GOOD FOUNDERS GET CRUSHED.
“Accountants were reporting numbers to business owners, but they weren’t showing them the direction.”
Neha Malhotra, FCPA · Co-Founder
Back in 2010, Neha and Ansh kept seeing the same thing. Brave founders who’d left safe jobs to build something were making blind financial calls at 3am, getting taken for a ride by suppliers and drowning in daily chaos.
Their accountants filed the tax forms and watched them struggle.
So we built something different. Not a traditional accounting firm, but a growth accounting firm: one that looks forward instead of back, and gets under the hood to fix what’s actually broken, from the cash flow to the stockroom.
Today we’re a global team of 15+ specialists with one job: making sure no good business fails for want of the financial or operational engine to survive.
specialists in finance, systems & operations
countries with Nexist offices
countries we serve clients in
business systems deployed
NOT YOUR TYPICAL ACCOUNTING FIRM.
A traditional accountant
Looks at the past to file your taxes.
Tells you what happened last month.
Reports the numbers and stops there.
Nexist
Looks at the future to find your profit.
Tells you what to do next Tuesday.
Uses the numbers as a map to fix your operations.
Already have an accountant? Great—most of our clients do. We don’t replace them; we act as your Virtual CFO.
MEET THE FOUNDERS
Neha Malhotra
Chief Financial Visionary & Co-Founder
An award-winning FCPA who sets the profit-first strategy, the forecasts and the targets that tell the business how it must perform. Her lens: where the cash is leaking, and what to do about it before it hits the bank.
FCPA
Top 40 Under 40
Australian Small Business Champion finalist
Read Neha’s story →
Ansh Malhotra
Chief Operating Officer & Co-Founder
Coded his first website at 10 and has since deployed 100+ systems—CRMs, ERPs, inventory and accounting software. He takes the technical “messy middle” and turns it into a clean digital backbone.
“Systems run the business. People run the systems. You run the vision.”
YOUR ENTIRE “HEAD OFFICE” TEAM.
Nexist is more than a CFO service. You get the strategic leadership of our principals, backed by a global team of 15+ specialists who live and breathe business operations.
From inventory experts and process designers to tech integrators and financial analysts, we’re the back-office muscle that lets you stop babysitting the business and start being the CEO.
Financial analysts
Financial Operations Specialists
Inventory experts
Process designers
Tech integrators
What we promise every client
Know what you’re earning, what you’re keeping and where the cash is hiding.
Systems and processes that run without you standing over them.
Your time back, and decisions made from facts instead of 3am worry.
The internal motto that drives us
It’s not a tagline we wrote for you. It’s the three words our own team works by, every day. When we fix a system, clean up an account or solve an operational problem, we’re not just doing a task. We’re protecting a founder’s dream, their team’s jobs and their family’s security.
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