[Remote] Payments Analyst
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Odyssey is a company focused on transforming K-12 education through Education Savings Account programs. The Payments Analyst will manage payment operations, ensuring accurate and timely disbursements while analyzing data to identify trends and enhance processes.
Responsibilities
- Ensure every payment flow balances and clears successfully — across state disbursements, family wallets, and vendor payouts
- Investigate and resolve payment exceptions — returned ACH, misdirected payments, failed disbursements
- Build and continuously improve the financial and operational records and systems that keep programs running
- Analyze payment and operational data to identify trends, anomalies, and issues
- Monitor KPIs and surface issues before they escalate
- Support ad hoc analysis requests from leadership
- Hunt for inefficiencies, eliminate unnecessary manual work, and build processes that scale
- Build the playbooks that make Odyssey's payment operations more scalable and resilient
Skills
- 1–2 years of experience in finance, accounting, operations, analytics, or a related role
- Exceptional attention to detail — you catch things others miss
- Genuinely curious — you ask why things work the way they do and want to understand the business, not just the task in front of you
- Low ego, high output — you're willing to do the unglamorous work, learn fast, and build from the ground up
- Strong Excel or Google Sheets skills
- Excellent communication and follow-through
- Highly dependable and proactive
- Experience with payments or transaction data workflows
- Familiarity with BI or reporting tools (Looker, Metabase, Tableau, etc.)
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