The Ultimate Beginning-Of-Year Payroll Checklist

Running payroll is a continuous task that all organisations must engage in. In the never-ending cycle of payroll management, HR and payroll managers go through the process of calculating payroll, making necessary remittances, and disbursing salaries.  Every payroll manager knows the possible mistakes that could happen in the process of running payroll. A slight error in a spreadsheet can […]
SeamlessHR Seals Position as Africa’s Leading Cloud-Based HR Platform With Recent ISO 27001:2013 Certification

SeamlessHR, Africa’s number one cloud-based HR platform has recently gained the ISO 27001:2013 certification for quality information security management systems. The ISO/IEC 27001:2013 is a globally recognised standard that requires organisations to build an information management system that keeps information safe and hedges against the risk of loss, damage, and other threats to information assets. […]
Implications of the Finance Act 2020 on Personal Income Tax

The Finance Act, 2020 was recently published and we’ve noticed some key elements that will affect how personal income tax will now be computed. Here are the sections of the Act that affect Personal Income Tax: Section 29 of the Finance Act 2020, which states: “Gross income means income from all sources less non-taxable income, […]
Remote Working: How to Sustain Motivation and Productivity

Remote working has grown increasingly popular in recent years. Still, you could say its popularity hit an all-time high in 2020, as even the most traditional companies had to adopt this system to stay in business and survive the uncertainties of the pandemic. A remote working system comes with its advantages. It allows employees to […]
SeamlessHR Raises New Funding to Scale Africa’s Workday

Lagos-based HR and payroll tech start-up SeamlessHR has closed a VC-led round of funding to unlock its next phase of growth. Founded in 2018 by Dr. Emmanuel Okeleji and Deji Lana, SeamlessHR is building Africa’s first enterprise-grade, cloud-based HR platform. SeamlessHR helps medium to large-sized companies automate and optimise their entire HR process from recruitment […]
Top Five Payroll Challenges and how to Overcome Them

Processing payroll is a function that touches the responsibilities of the HR and Finance departments, and depending on the organisation, either department could be placed in charge of it. For payroll specialists, finance, and HR personnel who work in this capacity, here are some of the challenges faced as they do so. Balancing payroll-related responsibilities […]