About Global Kinect
UK-registered specialist in MENA payroll.
Global Kinect Ltd is a UK company (Companies House 16852789, registered in England and Wales, VAT GB513719302) running statutory payroll across eleven MENA countries from offices in London and Dubai. UK and Irish CFOs operating in the region need an operating layer that handles Mudad, WPS, GPSSA, EOSB, and the country-by-country regulatory complexity natively — not as another row in a generic global vendor's spreadsheet.
Global Kinect is a UK-registered MENA payroll specialist. The contracting party for UK and Irish clients is Global Kinect Ltd, registered in England and Wales (Companies House 16852789, VAT GB513719302). Operations sit across offices in London and Dubai, with production payroll data hosted on Oracle Cloud in Jeddah for Saudi clients (Saudi PDPL scope) and on Oracle's regional MENA estate for other clients. We run only MENA — eleven countries, one operating layer, one audit trail.
Entity facts
The supplier you're contracting
Procurement and finance teams need this information lined up before a service supply starts. Here it is.
- Legal name
- Global Kinect Ltd
- Companies House number
- 16852789
- Registered jurisdiction
- England and Wales
- Registered office
- 13 Hanover Square, Mayfair, London W1S 1HN
- VAT registration
- GB513719302
- Production data residency (Saudi clients)
- Oracle Cloud, Jeddah — in scope of Saudi PDPL
- Production data residency (other MENA clients)
- Oracle Cloud's regional MENA estate
- Governing law (supplier relationship)
- England and Wales
Working together
How we work with UK and Irish finance teams
The supplier relationship is UK B2B. The operating layer is MENA. Below, what that means in practice for your procurement, finance, and audit functions.
Sterling invoicing on request
Management fee invoices in pounds sterling for UK and Irish clients on request. Statutory pass-through (employer contributions, end-of-service provisions, insurance premiums) is denominated in local currency at the cycle-date FX rate and passed through at cost.
UK contract law as the default
Contracting party is Global Kinect Ltd, a UK company. UK contract law applies to the supplier relationship; standard UK B2B place-of-supply rules apply to the management fee. Your procurement team treats us as they would any UK supplier.
UK GDPR + Saudi PDPL alignment
Data protection treatment is jurisdiction-aware. Saudi client production data sits on Oracle Cloud in Jeddah, in scope of Saudi PDPL. Other MENA client data sits on Oracle's regional MENA estate. UK GDPR alignment governs non-residency-bound processing.
UK GAAP-aware reporting
Per-cycle payroll summaries map to UK GAAP cost categories — wages, employer's NIC equivalent (the regional contribution lines), end-of-service accruals, benefits in kind. Most UK and Irish finance teams plug it into their consolidation cycle as a regional cost centre without re-classification.
Locations
Where we operate
Offices are where humans work. Data residency is where systems run. Two distinct things — laid out separately.
London
UK head office and supplier relationship
13 Hanover Square, Mayfair. Where the supplier contract sits, where invoicing is generated, where UK and Irish finance teams reach us.
Dubai
Regional delivery and operations
Operating and account-management base for MENA delivery. Where the cycle work happens day to day.
Jeddah
Saudi data residency on Oracle Cloud
Production payroll data for Saudi clients is hosted on Oracle Cloud in Jeddah, in scope of Saudi PDPL. Infrastructure, not office presence.
Coverage
Eleven MENA countries
We run only MENA. Coverage is deep — country-by-country statutory regimes handled natively in the engine — not the eighty-per-cent shape that generic global vendors offer.
WPS submissions, GOSI dual-tier, GPSSA federal-vs-DIFC, ILOE, EOSB across the early-tier and full-tier rules, localisation banding (Saudization, Emiratisation, Qatarisation, Kuwaitisation, Bahrainisation, Omanisation).
Egyptian progressive income tax brackets, social insurance schedules, Labour Law 12/2003 EOSB. Moroccan CNSS / AMO / IGR. Algerian CNAS plus DZD currency-restriction operational treatment confirmed in scoping.
Jordanian SSC contributions, end-of-service indemnity. Lebanese NSSF and currency-volatility operational treatment confirmed in scoping per engagement.