The roles
Platform administrator (SSA)
Platform administrator (SSA)
Organisation: EOSB, the platform operator.Responsible for: registering employers, trustees and fund managers; setting up and activating employers; approving changes to employee salary, start date and payment details; paying out approved benefits; user accounts; benchmarks; payment service providers.Can also: do anything an employer does with employees or funding, on their behalf; decide fund manager budgets; record verification decisions when MELSS asks.Cannot: confirm employer funding, approve a benefit payment, or move trust money to or from the fund manager. Those belong to the trustee.
Regulator (GOV)
Regulator (GOV)
Organisation: MELSS.Responsible for: verifying every employer, trustee and fund manager before it can take part.Sees: every active employer’s monthly accruals, computation exceptions and transaction ledger. These views are read-only.Cannot: change records or move money.
Employer (EMP)
Employer (EMP)
Organisation: one employer.Responsible for: registering employees and keeping their records accurate; terminating leavers; paying into the trust and submitting proof; approving or rejecting fund manager budgets for its trust.Sees: its own employees, liability ledger, trust, funding history and the trust’s portfolio (read-only).Cannot: change salary, start date or payment details without approval; see other employers.
Trustee (TRUST)
Trustee (TRUST)
Organisation: one trustee, holding one or more trusts.Responsible for: confirming employer payments; approving or rejecting leavers’ benefit payments; logging transfers to the fund manager; approving recognitions that differ from what was sent; confirming money returned; approving expenses above SLE 100,000; deciding budgets.Sees: the trusts it holds, their portfolios, allocation and returns.Cannot: pay a benefit out (the administrator does that), or post expenses and buy assets (the fund manager does).
Fund manager (TFM)
Fund manager (TFM)
Organisation: one fund manager, managing one or more trusts.Responsible for: recognising cash from the trustee; setting up portfolio frameworks; buying assets and recording income, valuations and write-offs; proposing budgets and posting expenses; returning money to the trust; month-end snapshots and reconciliation.Cannot: spend without an approved budget, spend above SLE 100,000 without the trustee, or use one trust’s cash for another.
Employee (EMPY)
Employee (EMPY)
Organisation: their employer.Employees are told by SMS and email when they are registered, and their benefit is paid to their payout account or SmartPay wallet. An employee portal is planned; employees do not sign in yet.
Custodian (WAFS)
Custodian (WAFS)
Reserved for a custodian of trust assets. The role exists and accounts can be created, but the custodian workspace is planned and has no functions yet.
Who does what
D = does it · A = approves or confirms it · V = can view it · — = no part.Onboarding
Employees
Money
For a budget, any one of the approvers settles it: whoever decides first.
