# Payments Analyst

**Company:** [Odyssey](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/odyssey)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Finance & Accounting
**Salary:** $65k – $85k/yr
**Experience:** 1+ years
**Skills:** Excel, Google Sheets, Payments, Ach, Financial Reporting, Kpi Monitoring, Data Analysis, BI Tools, Looker, Tableau
**Posted:** 2026-05-21

> Payments Analyst responsible for end-to-end payment operations, exception resolution, financial reporting, and process improvement across multi-state education funding programs. Reports to the CFO and requires 1-2 years of finance/ops experience with strong attention to detail.

## Job Description

## Payments
- 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

## Reporting & Analysis
- 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

## Process & Playbooks
- 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

## What We’re Looking For
**Required**
- 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

**Preferred**
- Experience with payments or transaction data workflows
- Familiarity with BI or reporting tools (Looker, Metabase, Tableau, etc.)

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