Employer of record, payroll and accounting across Africa
Employ people across
Africa without a company
in every country.
For companies in the UK and Europe employing people in Africa. We become the legal employer, or we run the payroll inside your own entity. Contracts, payslips, the revenue authority and the filing calendar are ours to get right, every month, on time.
Three ways we work
Whether or not you have an entity in the country.
Employer of record
No local company, no registrations, no resident director. We employ your people on compliant contracts and you manage them exactly as you would your own team.
Payroll bureau
You have the entity, we run the payroll. Monthly cycle, filings, payslips, reconciliations, year end certificates, in South Africa or the UK.
Accounting
Bookkeeping, management accounts, VAT returns and annual financial statements, under SYSCOHADA in the OHADA states or local standards elsewhere, by someone who already has the payroll numbers in front of them.
What keeps finance directors awake
The deadlines do not move, and the penalty lands on you.
Not on your adviser. That is the whole reason to put the calendar somewhere it belongs.
South Africa, run end to end
- EMP201 by the 7th, PAYE, UIF and SDL together
- EMP501 interim reconciliation by 31 October
- EMP501 annual reconciliation by 31 May
- IRP5 and IT3(a) certificates for every employee
- UIF declarations to the Department of Employment and Labour
- SDL at 1 percent of payroll above the threshold
- Payslips meeting the Basic Conditions of Employment Act
West Africa, and why it is not one market
Eight of the countries we work toward are OHADA members, so company law and the SYSCOHADA accounting framework are genuinely harmonised across them and apply directly, ahead of national law. That makes incorporation, bookkeeping and statutory accounts portable across the bloc.
Employment law is not. The OHADA Uniform Act on Labour Law has never been adopted, so contracts, payroll, social security and termination remain purely national in every one of them. Anyone telling you West Africa is a single employment market has not read the treaty.
Ghana, Sierra Leone and the Gambia sit outside OHADA altogether, on common law foundations, and are different again.
What you actually get
The same three things every month, without chasing.
You deal with the same person from the first conversation to the year end file. Not a ticket queue.
Where we work
One country live, one building, the rest on request.
We would rather tell you where we are than imply we are everywhere. Ask about any country on this page and you will get a straight answer about what we can do there this month.
South Africa
ALPAYE (Pty) Ltd is a registered South African company, VAT registered, with its office in Sandton. Employer of record, payroll and accounting, all of it in house, today.
Senegal
Our second employer of record country, and the gateway to the wider UEMOA bloc. We already run a freight and customs corridor between Brighton and Dakar, so the route is not new to us.
The rest of West Africa
Togo, Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ghana, Sierra Leone and the Gambia. Payroll, accounting and compliance support today, employer of record as each is established.
We work in English and French, which matters more here than anywhere else. Most providers serve one language bloc and stop at the border between them.
In their words
What clients say.
In English and in French, which is how the work actually arrives.
Navigating South African payroll, PAYE and UIF from London used to be an administrative minefield. Partnering with Alpaye for our South African operations gives our board complete peace of mind. Every SARS submission is punctual, expat packages are handled seamlessly, and our local team is paid accurately on the exact same date every single month.
Finance Director, UK management and quantitative consultancy
Dans la distribution pharmaceutique au Sénégal, aucune erreur de conformité fiscale ou
sociale n'est tolérée. Alpaye gère notre paie locale, les cotisations IPRES et CSS, ainsi
que les déclarations fiscales avec une rigueur absolue. C'est le pont idéal entre nos
exigences à Paris et la réalité réglementaire à Dakar.
Directeur des Opérations, fournisseur pharmaceutique international, France
Managing multi-shift retail payroll across borders requires speed and zero margin for error. From CNSS declarations to local OTR tax withholdings in Lomé, our entire store workforce is handled flawlessly. Alpaye turned what used to be a chaotic monthly reconciliation into a transparent, stress free process.
General Manager, multi-site retail group
Tell us where your people are.
How many, in which country, and whether you already have an entity. We will tell you what it takes and what it costs.