Welcome to Rārangi Utu-a-Mātauranga–Education Payroll. Our team of around 200 people is responsible for delivering the pay to 97,000 teachers and school support staff every fortnight – that’s $251 million per pay period and $6.5 billion each year. It’s the combination of great people and cutting edge technology that enables us to do this well. Check out why we think it’s a great place to work and what roles we have on offer.
About our roles| Kōrero mō te tūranga >>
Our technology team work with an award-winning application built on a modern kubernetes technology stack that uses the latest azure services. This enables us to have agile-minded, technology-focused roles in software development, business analysis, testing, scrum practice, cloud operations, platform engineering, IT system operations and change design.
Our Oracle-based payroll system is run by our wide range of payroll experts, including payroll, salary assessment, overpayment and ACC advisors, tax and customer service specialists, payrun coordinators and payroll system administrators. All of these positions contribute to the fortnightly payrun being successfully delivered to schools.
Our specialist teams keep EPL at the top of our game and include risk and assurance, people and leadership, finance, communications and engagement and technology assurance.
There are many internal opportunities for growth across the organisation and we pride ourselves on being able to upskill and recruit from within.
Our values| Ko ngā uara >>
| Kia māmā ake ngā mahi | Make things easier | Mā ā mātou kiritaki, me ngā hoa katoa | For all our customers and colleagues |
| Mā te mārama ka pai ake | Improve through understanding | he whakamahi taunakitanga hei rapu otinga ki ngā matea e huri haere ana | using evidence to find solutions for changing needs |
| Ako mā te mahi | Learn through doing | whakamātauria ngā mea, kia whaitake ō mahi, kia auaha hoki | try things out, be practical and innovative |
| Te mahi ngātahi | Work as a team | te whakatōpū i ō mātou raukaha katoa kia tutuki ai ngā kaupapa | bringing all our strengths together to make things happen |
| Me whakaute i te tangata | Treat everyone with respect | me whai uara, me whakapono ki te tangata, e tipu ai te wairua mahi pai rawa | value and trust each other to build a great working spirit |
Employee benefits | Ngā painga mō te kaimahi
Jobs | Tūranga mahi
The Technical Lead will play a senior role within the development team, demonstrating technical experience and working on technical design, development, unit test and maintenance of Educations Payroll’s application system. You will be working directly on the core payroll which processes the pay for schools across New Zealand. This role works closely with Business Analysts and Product Owners to assist in refining requirements, writing test units and working towards release deployments.
The Senior Test Analyst will play a senior role within the testing team and is accountable for the end-to-end delivery of testing services which include test planning, test case specification, test script preparation, test execution, test data management and test closure activities. In this role you are responsible for quality and timeliness of EPLs deliverables, efficiency of testing tasks, progress, and reporting. You will be working directly on the core payroll which processes the pay for schools across New Zealand.
If you have questions about roles at Education Payroll email myhr@edpay.nz
1 Apply online, adverts have a 2 week timeframe. 2 Applications reviewed and shortlisted, same week as close date. 3 Updated via phone call or email, same week as close date. 4 Successful candidates progress to interview with the team panel, 1 week after close date. 5 Successful interviewees progress to the reference check stage, within 2 days post interview. 6 Successful candidates are made an offer, within 1 week post interview. 7 Employment paperwork will be sent out for you to complete and return, 2 days post making you an offer. 8 Your first day, welcome to EPL! Your first day will be the date agreed between you and the manager. We will endeavour to meet these timeframes. If we can’t, we will contact you.