Kernel HR & Payroll: a multi-country HRIS and full multi-currency payroll. The same rigour across all 54 African countries, with no patchwork of local providers.
You already manage African employees, but the current setup (one local provider per country, heterogeneous payslip formats, monthly reporting rebuilt by hand, informal regulatory watch) generates errors, delays and lasting fatigue across HR and finance. Kernel HR & Payroll addresses this by consolidating everything on a single platform, with active regulatory monitoring and a dedicated legal team.
Contracts, amendments, leave, absences, time tracking, expenses: everything is consolidated in one multi-country tool, with a dedicated employee workspace. No more juggling between local providers, shared spreadsheets and mailboxes.
Sequenced payroll cycle, client sign-off before execution, payslips in local formats, consolidated multi-currency reporting ready for closing. Your finance team takes back ownership of the African payroll mass, without depending on each country provider’s calendar.
Kernel HR & Payroll runs at two levels depending on your structure. You can operate only the administrative layer when you already have a local accountant per country, or hand the full payroll to Kernel for a homogeneous multi-country production. Both levels share the same platform, employee workspace and consolidated reporting.
Multi-country administration, no payroll production.
You already have a local accountant per country and you want to unify multi-country HR management.
HRIS plus payroll produced by Kernel, locally compliant.
You want to entrust your entire multi-country payroll to a single partner, with locally compliant payslips and consolidated reporting.
You can start with HRIS, then add the Payroll layer as your African multi-country footprint grows. Detailed pricing is available on the Pricing page.
See full pricingMulti-country payroll demands a rigorous cycle. Kernel structures every month with clear milestones and a client sign-off before execution. At any point in time, you know exactly where each country’s payroll stands and who needs to act.
You submit monthly variables (bonuses, overtime, withholdings) and current amendments through the platform.
Our teams integrate the variables, apply local scales and collective agreements, and produce pre-calculations.
Internal four-eye review, verification of atypical cases (joiners, leavers, paid leave, severance).
You receive the payslips and the consolidated summary for validation. No execution without your green light.
After sign-off, payments are released to employees in local currency or via the right rails (mobile money included).
Social and tax filings with local authorities, and supporting documents made available.
The exact calendar (D-12, D-5, etc.) is tailored to each country based on local legal constraints and banking lead times.
Operating in Africa demands a product designed multi-country from day one. Kernel HR & Payroll consolidates your payroll cycles across the continent, handles currencies, languages and local legal formats, and delivers a single report in your consolidation currency.
From Morocco to South Africa, from Senegal to Madagascar. Priority countries are operated directly by Kernel teams; remaining countries are activated through a selected partner network, under the same platform and standards.
Calculations and disbursements in local currency, consolidated reporting in the currency of your choice. Coverage of the main African currencies and the CFA franc zones.
Platform, payslips and support available in several languages, aligned with employee usage and local legal requirements.
African payroll is constantly evolving: contribution reforms, new collective agreements, updated tax scales, minimum wage changes. Kernel maintains active regulatory monitoring in every operated country, and pushes the changes into the product before they impact your payroll.
Lawyers specialised on African jurisdictions follow regulatory changes, collective agreements and official scales for the covered countries.
Calculation rules and scales are updated directly in the payroll engine, with no action on your side, and a tracked version log.
Payslips, certificates and filings compliant with each country’s official formats. Required documents available in one click in the employee workspace.
Full traceability across payroll items, sign-offs and disbursements. Compatible with your CS3D and CSRD requirements on the African value chain.
Kernel HR & Payroll integrates with your existing ecosystem. Employee data, accounting entries and banking flows circulate automatically, with no manual re-keying or monthly exports.
No native integration? Our open API and webhooks allow you to connect Kernel to your business tools within days.
Tell us your countries, headcount and current stack. A product demo is scheduled within 24 hours with a Kernel multi-country payroll expert.
Detailed pricing available on the Pricing page.
One platform, eight services articulated around the key moments of your African operations.
Hire and pay employees across all 54 African countries, without setting up a local entity.
Find and hire qualified African talent across all roles and seniority levels.
Provide your African teams with reliable workspaces, under a single contract and one Kernel contact.
Equip your African teams through our network of local IT providers, with Kernel co-piloting.
Set up your subsidiary in all 54 African countries, with end-to-end local legal support.
Contract and pay your African contractors in multi-currency, with a framework that reduces misclassification risk.
Centralize all your African HR needs in a single platform: EOR, payroll, recruitment, contractors, compliance.
