Data Integration Analyst - (Part-time, long-term, remote: Customer Facing)

Schedule: Monday to Friday within 9am-5pm Pacific Time, on a consistent weekly schedule agreed up front, We’re hiring a part-time Data Integration Analyst for a long-term contract. You’ll own the work of getting each district’s financial data into our platform and making sure it’s accurate. You’ll also be the first stop when a customer has a question about a dashboard.

Every district’s accounting system is different. Some offer API access, some can only run reports that export to CSV, and some will set up a custom automated export with our help. You’ll work directly with district IT staff to figure out the best way to get each district’s data, then clean it, check it, and keep it flowing reliably.

This is a hands-on, customer-facing role on a small team, with plenty of room to learn.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with district IT teams (usually 5-6 people) to determine how to get each district’s financial data
• Combine and prepare data from CSV exports, reports, and other sources
• Learn how school district accounting data is structured, including account code strings, budgets, balances, and encumbrances
• Clean and validate incoming data, spot anomalies, and resolve them with the district
• Reconcile budget, actual, and encumbrance figures and confirm they add up
• Help set up and monitor automated nightly data pulls, working with our platform engineer
• Work with our dashboard designer to confirm we’re requesting the right data fields for each dashboard
• Respond to help desk tickets from customers with questions or errors in their dashboards, with same-business-day or next-business-day turnaround (Pacific Time)
• Document each district’s data sources, field mappings, and process
• Comfortable with Zoom (camera on)

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, business administration, finance, or a related field (or the international equivalent, such as a Licenciatura or Contador Público)
• 1-3 years of professional experience in accounting, bookkeeping, finance, or data work
• Solid grasp of accounting basics: revenue vs. expense accounts, balance sheet vs. profit and loss, and budget-to-actual reporting
• Strong Excel skills (lookups, pivot tables, formulas, and cleaning messy data)
• Excellent spoken and written English; you’ll be on calls and writing to U.S. customers
• Experienced user of Claude as a tool to improve productivity (not as a replacement for your own expertise and attention)
• Strong communication skills, comfortable with both technical and non-technical people
• A careful, detail-oriented approach to data accuracy
• Reliable availability during Pacific Time business hours (see Schedule and Commitment)

Preferred (not required)

• Experience with school district or government fund accounting
• Familiarity with multi-segment account code structures (fund, goal, function, object)
• Experience with ERP or accounting software

You don’t need to know K-12 accounting on day one. We’ll teach you. We care most about solid accounting fundamentals, strong Excel skills, attention to detail, and clear communication.

This is a regular, ongoing part-time engagement: about 20 hours a week on a steady schedule we agree on together, with availability of at least 2 hours on each of these days (to respond to emails and internal zoom calls) during Pacific Time business hours. We’re looking for someone who treats this as a real, dependable part of their work, not an occasional side project. If you have other work or clients, that’s fine, as long as your schedule is flexible enough to meet ours reliably.

Help desk turnaround is measured in Pacific Time business days.

What We Offer

• Long-term, remote, part-time contract work with a steady schedule
• Competitive hourly pay in USD
• A small, collaborative team and real ownership
• The chance to build in-demand expertise in education finance data
• Potential for more hours as we grow

How We Hire

• Send your resume and a short note about a time you found and fixed errors in a messy dataset.
• Short video interview.
• Our top three candidates complete a paid exercise: about 100 minutes of Excel and writing work on realistic data, for a flat fee regardless of outcome.
• Offer.

This is an independent contractor position. We are an equal opportunity engagement.

Pay: $14.00 - $20.00 per hour

Expected hours: 10.0 - 20.0 per week

We’re a small, self-funded SaaS startup building analytics software for K-12 school districts. We pull financial data out of districts’ accounting systems and turn it into clear dashboards that help district leaders understand their budgets, spending, and fiscal health. Our team is about four people, and everyone has real ownership and a direct impact on the product.