BUREAU
Drop the diff. Get the pack.
Calculation-only payroll. You retain submission control. We handle every statutory rule across MENA — you sign off and file.
Bureau is Global Kinect’s calculation-only payroll configuration. We run every statutory rule across the eleven MENA countries — GOSI, WPS, Mudad, GPSSA, ILOE, EOSB, IGR, CNSS, SSC, and the six nationalisation regimes. You submit to the regimes yourself; we return a submission-ready file per country. Available across all eleven MENA countries from day one. Bureau plus HRIS adds continuous data capture for buyers running HRIS alongside.
THE OWNERSHIP MODEL
You file. We calculate.
Bureau is the calculation core of Global Kinect’s workforce control surface ( see /platform for the architecture). You bring the workforce data — monthly diff file, HRIS stream, or API. The statutory engine runs against every regime in every country you operate in. We return the payroll pack: register, payslips, statutory files per country, bank file in the format each country’s banking layer requires. You sign off and submit to GOSI, Mudad, WPS, GPSSA, CNSS, SSC, IGR — wherever your operation files. A regime changes — a GOSI rate, a Saudization band — we absorb it in your next cycle, not next quarter.
The alternative you run today: a different spreadsheet to a different bureau in every country. A missed Mudad window. A rejected WPS file. Found out after the fact. Month-end reconciliation that eats time you can’t cost. One engine replaces the lot.
THE CYCLE
Five steps. Same every cycle.
Send the diff
Monthly workforce-change file (Bureau) or continuous record stream (Bureau plus HRIS). New starters, leavers, salary changes, allowances, leave, working-pattern changes.
Engine runs
Statutory calculation per regime per country. Gross-to-net, variance check, EOSB accrual, six nationalisation regimes where they apply, audit log entry per change.
Review the pack
Variance pack out for your sign-off. Anomalies flagged inline (employees outside expected ranges, missing data, statutory edge cases). Country lead available for review questions.
Sign off
Sign per country. Same workflow whether you have one country or eleven.
Submit yourself
Statutory files out per country in the format each regime requires. You submit to Mudad, GOSI, WPS, GPSSA, CNSS, SSC, IGR, the lot.
WHEN BUREAU IS THE RIGHT SHAPE
Bureau works for the buyer who keeps submission control.
When Bureau fits
- You have your own statutory submission relationships and don't want to hand them over
- You operate across multiple MENA countries and the operational mess is calculation, not submission
- You're moving from a regional bureau or multiple bureaus and want one engine across the lot
- You want submission control for compliance / audit reasons
- You're considering Managed later — Bureau is the calculation core; deepen when the operation matures
When Managed is the better fit
- You don't want to handle statutory submissions at all (and you operate in the six GCC states)
- You're hiring without local entity and need EOR shape, not Bureau
- You want autonomous payroll where HRIS streams to the cycle without manual diff prep
THE HRIS ADD-ON
Bureau plus HRIS. No monthly diff.
Bureau plus HRIS removes the monthly diff step. HRIS captures workforce changes continuously — new starters as they’re created, salary updates as they’re approved, leave as it’s logged. By payroll cut-off, the data already exists in the platform. The cycle runs on captured data. You still submit to the regimes; what changes is the data-preparation work disappears.
See the maturity arcWHERE BUREAU RUNS
Available across all eleven MENA countries today.
Bureau is live across the full eleven. Click into any country for the per-country statutory detail — what regimes apply, what files we produce, what nationalisation rules are tracked.
QUESTIONS WE HEAR
Common questions.
READY?
Stay in control. Lose the spreadsheet.
Bring three months of your last cycle; we mirror it in the demo. No slides. Bureau works at fifty employees and at five thousand. Same engine.