Manage your African employees without friction
A unified HR platform to run your African teams: payroll, compliance, leave, contractors, consolidated reporting.
The challenge to solve
Managing employees spread across several African countries usually pushes companies into a stack of tools and providers: an accountant per country, a spreadsheet for leave, another for payroll, manual bank transfers. Compliance then relies on a few people’s memory, financial reporting is rebuilt every month, and employees lack a clear workspace to track their pay or requests.
Add to this the regulatory complexity: rates, collective agreements, filing calendars, taxation of in-kind benefits. Every country has its specifics and the smallest mistake can trigger a reassessment or a tension with an employee.
The challenge is not to replace a tool, but to turn the African HR function into a structured partnership delivering compliance, operational serenity and real-time visibility.
How Kernel addresses it
Kernel acts as your African HR partner, combining a proprietary platform with on-the-ground expertise.
Unified HR platform
A single client space to manage contracts, payroll, leave, expenses, compliance and consolidated multi-currency reporting. Each employee has their own personal workspace.
See the Kernel platformHRIS and Payroll
Two service levels: HRIS at nineteen euros per month per employee for administrative management, or HRIS and Payroll at thirty-nine euros per month for full payslip production and local filings.
See Kernel HR & PayrollContractors integrated
Your contractors are managed in the same interface, with compliant contracting, centralised invoicing and multi-currency payments. No parallel tool to maintain.
See Kernel FreelanceConcrete benefits
Real-time visibility
Team, cost and compliance dashboards continuously updated.
Multi-country compliance
Our legal team applies legal updates without your involvement.
Multi-currency native
Local calculations and consolidated reporting in your reference currency.
HR time saved
No more spreadsheets and reminders: everything flows through the platform.
Employee workspace
Every employee and contractor accesses payslips, leave and supporting documents.
Partner coordination
Kernel runs accountants, lawyers and local authorities in the background.
Typical example
A European scale-up employs forty people across six African countries. Before Kernel, payroll was produced by six different providers and finance consolidated everything by hand each month.
Payroll is now produced in parallel across the six countries, with consolidated reporting exported in one click.
Kernel solutions involved
Kernel HR & Payroll
An HR platform built for African teams: unified dashboard, leave, time tracking, multi-country payroll and local compliance.
DiscoverKernel Platform
One platform, three interfaces: client, employee, Kernel administration. Your full African HR operations in real time.
DiscoverKernel Freelance
Compliant contracting, centralised invoicing, multi-currency payments. A clear framework to work with African contractors, without misclassification risk.
DiscoverFAQ
Can you take over an existing payroll?
Yes. We pick up the history needed to ensure payroll continuity and migrate employees onto the platform without disruption.
Which countries are covered?
The HRIS offering is available across the continent. Full payroll is delivered directly in our priority markets and extended via partners elsewhere.
How is multi-country compliance handled?
Our legal team monitors regulatory changes and updates rates and obligations on the platform. You have nothing to do on your side.
Do employees have access to the platform?
Yes. Each one has a dedicated workspace for payslips, leave, expenses and document signing.
Can you connect to our existing tools?
Yes. The platform exposes an API and connectors to the most common HR, finance and IT tools.
Is the platform billed separately?
No. It is included as soon as you use any Kernel service. Only Kernel services are billed per their own pricing.
Move forward with a dedicated African HR partner
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