Global Kinect for the UK
UK-registered MENA payroll specialist.
Global Kinect Ltd is a UK company (Companies House 16852789) running MENA payroll for UK and Irish businesses across eleven countries. Offices in London and Dubai. Production payroll data hosted on Oracle Cloud in Jeddah for Saudi clients.
Global Kinect is a UK-registered MENA payroll specialist (Global Kinect Ltd, Companies House 16852789, registered in England and Wales). UK and Irish businesses contract a UK supplier; the management fee invoices in sterling on request and falls under standard UK B2B place-of-supply rules. Operations sit across offices in London and Dubai, with production payroll data hosted on Oracle Cloud in Jeddah for Saudi clients. Coverage is eleven MENA countries on one operating layer.
How we engage
How UK and Irish businesses contract us
The supplier relationship is UK B2B. The operating layer is MENA. Both halves are deliberate — UK procurement and finance teams contract a UK supplier; the engine handles eleven regional regimes.
UK B2B contract via Global Kinect Ltd
Procurement and finance contract a UK supplier (Companies House 16852789, registered in England and Wales). UK contract law as the default. Standard UK B2B place-of-supply rules apply to the management fee; statutory pass-through is denominated in local currency at cycle rate.
Sterling invoicing on request
Management fee can be invoiced in pounds sterling for UK and Irish clients. We agree the invoicing structure during onboarding so finance teams know what hits the AP system in which currency.
UK GAAP-aligned reporting
The per-cycle payroll summary maps 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.
Saudi data residency in Jeddah
For Saudi clients, production payroll data is hosted on Oracle Cloud in Jeddah, in scope of Saudi PDPL. Data stays inside the Kingdom while the contractual relationship sits with a UK supplier. Other MENA clients sit on Oracle's regional MENA estate.
What we do
MENA payroll, three ways
Same engine across all three. Pick the model that matches how much of the cycle you want to keep in-house.
Where we work
Eleven MENA countries
GCC, Egypt, North Africa and the Levant. Each country page carries a UK-context layer translating the local statutory framework for UK and Irish buyers.
FAQ
Common questions from UK and Irish buyers
What is Global Kinect?
A UK-registered MENA payroll specialist. Global Kinect Ltd is registered in England and Wales (Companies House 16852789), VAT-registered (GB513719302), with offices in London and Dubai. Production payroll data sits on Oracle Cloud — in Jeddah for Saudi clients (Saudi PDPL scope), on the regional MENA estate for the rest. Eleven MENA countries on one operating layer.
Why a MENA specialist instead of a generic global platform?
Most generic global-platform vendors handle MENA as another row in a spreadsheet. Mudad in Saudi, WPS across the GCC, GPSSA on the UAE federal-vs-DIFC split, ILOE for unemployment insurance, the Egyptian progressive-bracket regime, end-of-service rules that differ country by country — these are the calculation surfaces where generic platforms fall short. We run only MENA. Eleven countries. One engine. One audit trail.
How does the UK supplier relationship work?
Contracting party is Global Kinect Ltd, a UK company registered in England and Wales. Management fee is invoiced from the UK under standard B2B place-of-supply rules; your finance team treats it as it would any UK supplier invoice. Sterling invoicing is available on request. Local statutory pass-through (employer contributions, end-of-service provisions, insurance premiums) is settled in local currency at the cycle-date rate and passed through at cost — these sit outside the service supply.
What if I have a UK entity but want to hire in MENA?
Two routes. If you have a local entity in the MENA market, run Payroll Bureau (calculation-only, you submit) or Managed Payroll (we run the cycle, you keep sign-off). If you don't have a local entity, run EOR — Global Kinect's regional entity employs the worker on your behalf and runs the same engine behind the scenes. Often a Saudi RHQ programme or comparable operating context is the trigger; we scope on a first call.
Where do I see country-by-country detail?
Every MENA country has its own page under /countries/<slug> with the statutory regimes, employment law detail, key compliance points, and a UK-context layer translating the country surface for UK and Irish buyers. Country-specific bureau pages (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Egypt) sit under /solutions/payroll-bureau/<slug> with deeper bureau-service detail.