THE WORKFORCE CONTROL SURFACE · MENA
MENA payroll, done properly.
One platform across your MENA workforce. UK-incorporated supplier. One submission. One audit trail. Bureau when you submit. Managed when we run the cycle.
Global Kinect is the UK-incorporated workforce control surface for businesses operating across the eleven MENA countries — Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Lebanon, Jordan. Two products: Direct Payroll for UK, EU, and US businesses with MENA workforces (Bureau across all eleven, Managed across the six GCC, HRIS as the layer to autonomous), and EOR-Engine for established MENA EOR providers. Both products run on the same MENA-specific statutory engine — GOSI, WPS, Mudad, GPSSA, ILOE, EOSB, IGR, and the four nationalisation regimes. When a regime changes — a GOSI rate, a Saudization band, an EOSB rule — we absorb it in your next cycle, not next quarter. Companies House 16852789, London office, Saudi data residency in Jeddah.
One platform
One platform for your MENA workforce.
A missed Mudad window, a rejected WPS file, a mis-banded Saudization penalty — the cost of running MENA payroll across scattered providers shows up at month-end, after the fact, when fixing it means chasing whichever bureau handles that country. The engine is substrate. The platform is the product. Global Kinect runs your MENA workforce as one system across the eleven countries you operate in: payroll calculated, statutory submitted (where you’ve handed us the keys), workforce data captured, visas tracked, contracts generated, the audit trail signed and immutable. Engine underneath; control surface on top.
COUNTRIES
11 MENA — Saudi to Jordan
ENGINE
Statutory · all regimes
WORKFORCE DATA
HRIS · captured continuously
OPERATIONAL
Visas · contracts · onboarding
AUDIT
Signed · immutable · 5-year
SUBSTRATE
Oracle Cloud · in-Kingdom for Saudi
The two layers
Pick the depth. Both are complete.
Two layers, two complete propositions. Layer One solves consolidation — one platform replacing the fragmented bureau-per-country, spreadsheet-per-month operation. Layer Two solves operational data preparation — workforce changes captured as they happen, the cycle runs on captured data, your involvement collapses to sign-off. Different buyers want different depths. Layer One customers who stay at Layer One are complete relationships, not under-served customers waiting to be upsold.
One platform across eleven MENA countries.
One place to send monthly payroll data. One engine handling calculation across the eleven. One unified output. Replaces the fragmented bureau-per-country, spreadsheet-per-month operation. Bureau when you submit to the regimes yourself; Managed when we submit on your behalf across the six GCC states where entity ownership permits. Both configurations are Layer One — same depth, different ownership split.
- Bureau · across all eleven MENA countries
- Bureau plus HRIS · same plus continuous data capture
- Managed · across six GCC states · we submit on your behalf
- Managed plus HRIS · same plus continuous data capture (path to Layer Two)
The cycle runs on captured data.
The deeper proposition. HRIS captures workforce changes continuously — starters, leavers, salary updates, allowances, leave, time — as they happen. By payroll cut-off, the data already exists. The cycle runs on captured data. The customer does not prepare a monthly diff. Customer involvement collapses to review and sign-off. The proposition that genuinely stuns buyers in demos when they realise what it means for their monthly operation.
- No monthly diff to prepare
- No starter-leaver chase
- No reconciliation between systems
- Cycle runs on captured data; you review and sign off
Different buyers want different depths; both layers are complete. We sell the depth the customer wants, well.
Two products · equal weight
Two products. One MENA engine.
Same MENA-specific calculation engine underneath. Two products on top — built for different buyers, sold on different sales motions, equal in commercial weight.
Direct Payroll
For end-employer businesses running their own MENA workforces. Bureau, Bureau plus HRIS, Managed, Managed plus HRIS, and Direct EOR — the five configurations that span the maturity arc. From consolidation (Layer One) to autonomous payroll (Layer Two). The product most homepage visitors are evaluating.
Direct PayrollEOR-Engine
For established MENA EOR providers running their own client books. The operating platform that didn’t exist — multi-country MENA payroll on one engine, with the operational layer around it: visa tracking, contract management, onboarding/offboarding, statutory reminders, sub-client templating, aggregated visibility per book. White-label or co-branded.
EOR-EngineWhat we’re not
Three things we are not. And what we are instead.
The MENA workforce market has three established categories. We sit outside all of them.
Not a payroll feature inside a generalist platform.
Generalist business platforms attach payroll as a module to broader offerings. A generalist's payroll module is calculation. We are the operational layer above calculation — where Finance and HR get visibility, control, and the audit surface. Calculation is substrate, not product.
Not a regional bureau with HR features.
Regional MENA specialists are largely bureaus that handle calculation, sometimes submissions, with HR modules bolted on. We are the platform that runs your workforce — data layer, calculation layer, operational layer — as one system. The calculation is the easy part. The integration is what we built.
Not a global platform with shallow MENA coverage.
Global platforms cover MENA at the level of “we support these countries.” We operate MENA at the level of GOSI dual-tier handled per employee, GPSSA federal-vs-DIFC split, Mudad submission windows, EOSB tier transitions across Saudi / UAE / Kuwait, Egyptian progressive brackets, four nationalisation regimes — encoded into the engine, not the documentation.
Three categories that don’t fit. We sit outside all three because the workforce-control-surface category we occupy doesn’t exist anywhere else for MENA.
Coverage
Across the GCC, Egypt, the Maghreb, and the Levant.
The platform runs across MENA. Per-country regulatory specifics, per-country EOSB tiers, per-country WPS file formats, per-country nationalisation regimes — all documented per country. Each country page covers what we calculate, what we submit, and what we don’t.
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See your MENA workforce on one platform in 20 minutes.
Demo runs against your specific MENA country mix. UK contracting, sterling invoicing on request. We work with UK and European procurement teams every week.