Data Analyst, BI/Technical at Payliance – Columbus, Ohio

Founded in 2007, Payliance is a trusted leader in payments processing, serving businesses across lending, e-commerce, and collections industries. With over $63 billion processed annually, Payliance supports more than 40,000 merchant locations and over 350 lending clients, enabling them to streamline payment acceptance, reduce costs, and mitigate fraud risks.

Our Payments-as-a-Service platform processes over 162 million transactions annually, ensuring secure and reliable payment processing. With more than 20 years of industry expertise, Payliance supports Automated Clearing House (ACH), Credit/Debit Cards, Real-Time Payments (RTP), Remote Created Checks (RCC), and more and integrates with leading Loan Management Systems.

Backed by Serent Capital, a growth-focused private equity firm, Payliance continues to drive innovation and deliver measurable value to its clients.

We are looking for a Data Analyst with strong technical and BI skills to help stand up a more centralized analytics and decision support capability. This role will focus on pulling together data across systems, building reliable reporting, and turning repeated asks into scalable outputs that improve visibility and speed of decision-making.

This is a builder role in a growing company. The right person can work independently, deal with imperfect data, and help create structure where it does not yet fully exist.

· Build and maintain reports, dashboards, and recurring analyses across business functions

· Pull, clean, and stitch data from multiple systems to answer cross-functional business questions

· Translate business needs into clear data requirements and analytical outputs

· Help standardize recurring requests into reusable reporting and scalable solutions

· Partner with business leaders to improve visibility into performance, trends, and operational issues

· Identify data quality issues, gaps in definitions, and opportunities to improve consistency

· Support development of a simple intake and prioritization model for analytics requests

· Document logic, assumptions, and definitions so reporting is transparent and repeatable

Payliance is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and strive to create an inclusive workplace for everyone. Discrimination or harassment of any kind—based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or pregnancy—is not tolerated. We also ensure that qualified individuals with disabilities are treated fairly in all aspects of employment. Reasonable accommodations are available throughout the application and employment process. If you need an accommodation, please contact Human Resources.

· Approximately 3–7 years of experience in data analytics, BI, or a similar analytical role

· Strong SQL skills and comfort working across multiple source systems

· Experience with BI and visualization tools such as Tableau, Power BI, or similar

· Strong ability to structure messy problems and produce practical outputs quickly

· Comfortable working independently in a fast-moving, lower-structure environment

· Able to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

· Experience with data validation, reconciliation, and issue identification

· Experience in fintech, payments, or a similarly complex operating environment

· Business leaders have faster access to meaningful answers

· Repeated ad hoc requests are converted into reliable reporting

· Cross-system analysis becomes easier and more consistent

· The company gains better operational visibility while the longer-term data platform is being built