Guinness Ghana

About the company

One of Ghana's leading beverage manufacturers and a subsidiary of Diageo, with a sizeable workforce ranging from frontline staff to senior management and executive leadership — requiring a payroll solution that meets rigorous governance standards.

The challenge

As a subsidiary of a global group, Guinness Ghana needed strict controls over payroll data access. Compensation structures differed significantly across employee tiers, and a single undifferentiated payroll system posed security and confidentiality risks. The organisation needed to keep pay information for directors, management, and junior staff separate and accessible only to authorised personnel, while still enabling consolidated reporting for group-level oversight — without significant manual effort or data exposure.

How Akatua delivered

Akatua implemented a three-tier payroll structure within a single unified database, separating junior staff, management, and directors into distinct payroll layers — each with its own access controls.

• Segregated payroll tiers with separate processing and storage for each employee level.
• Unified reporting from a single-database architecture across all tiers without compromising confidentiality.
• Scalable governance foundation for internal audits and group compliance with clear data boundaries.