Accounting & Payment Operations Lead

Accounting & Payment Operations Lead 

Location

Remote (US-based) 

Overview 

Opendorse operates one of the largest athlete payment platforms in college sports, moving millions of dollars annually from brands, agencies, and schools to athletes. We are hiring an Accounting & Payment Operations Lead to own the execution, accuracy, and reporting of how funds move through the platform.

This role sits at the intersection of payments, accounting operations, and platform performance. You will ensure athlete payouts are processed accurately and on time, customer-funded programs are tracked clearly, and payment workflows operate with strong controls and transparency.

This is not a traditional bookkeeping role. It is an operational ownership role focused on running and improving complex payment and fund-management workflows inside a marketplace platform.

Key Responsibilities 

Platform Payment Operations

• Execute daily and weekly payment processing for market seeding programs and athlete payouts.
• Manage high-volume payment activity across multiple tools and vendors.
• Monitor payment queues, exceptions, reversals, and timing issues; resolve efficiently.
• Reconcile payment activity across the platform, bank accounts, and third-party providers.
• Maintain accurate, audit-ready documentation of payment workflows.

Platform Funds & Program Performance

• Own tracking and reporting of marketing seeding programs flowing through the platform.
• Monitor how funds are allocated, deployed, and depleted across athlete payouts.
• Maintain recurring reporting on:
  • Athlete payouts by program
  • Program-level fund usage and remaining balances
  • Timing and pacing of funds relative to program commitments
    
• Act as the source of truth for program-level financial activity inside the platform.
• Partner with internal stakeholders to ensure platform fund usage aligns with program intent and customer expectations.

Tax & Compliance Operations

• Coordinate preparation and filing of required tax forms (1099s, 1042-S, and related filings).
• Ensure athlete payouts comply with IRS requirements and internal controls.
• Maintain athlete and customer tax documentation within the platform.
• Partner with external accounting and tax vendors as needed.

Process Improvement & Controls

• Identify risks, inefficiencies, and gaps in payment and fund-tracking workflows.
• Build and maintain checklists, controls, and QA processes to reduce errors.
• Collaborate with Product, Support, and Engineering to improve tools and workflows.
• Provide operational input into future platform enhancements.

Vendor, Bank & Partner Coordination

• Coordinate with banking partners and payment vendors to ensure smooth processing.
• Track processing timelines, SLAs, and issue resolution.
• Support customers with custom funding or payout structures.

Who You Are

• You like running real systems where money moves, and improving them over time.
• You’re detail-heavy, but solutions-oriented: you prevent issues, not just clean them up.
• You think in workflows, controls, and edge cases.
• You’re comfortable working across multiple tools and partners (bank portals, payout systems, spreadsheets, dashboards).
• You can partner with Product/Engineering without needing to be technical yourself.

Required Qualifications

• 2-5 years experience in accounting operations, payments operations, or financial operations.
• Hands-on experience processing payments, reconciliations, and managing exceptions.
• Comfortable owning workflows end-to-end with minimal supervision.
• Strong grasp of internal controls and compliance basics.
• Experience coordinating with external vendors or partners.
• Solid Excel / Sheets skills and confidence working across multiple systems.
  

Nice to Have

• Experience with 1099 / 1042-S workflows, contractor/creator payments, or marketplace payouts.
• Exposure to fintech tools, payout platforms, or multi-party payment systems.
• SaaS / marketplace background where money moves through a platform.
• Light SQL / analytics experience (helpful, not required).
• Experience working cross-functionally with Product/Engineering on process improvements.
  

State Eligibility

Opendorse is currently only able to hire full-time employees who reside in the following states: AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, IN, IA, KS, LA, MD, MA, MI, MN, MO, NE, NJ, NY, NC, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, and WI. If you have questions about eligibility or remote work options, feel free to reach out.