Data-Driven Freight Payment & Process Analyst

Procter & Gamble; Cincinnati (OH); On-site; USD 56,000 - 78,000; Full time

Job summary

Procter & Gamble seeks a Freight Audit & Payment Analyst in Cincinnati to ensure timely, accurate payments to transportation providers while safeguarding internal controls. The role blends daily operations with data analysis, carrier engagement, and continuous improvement across transportation systems in the region.

You will monitor freight-payment performance, investigate exceptions, resolve defects, and identify opportunities to automate or simplify work.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical, critical-thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, including data organization, filtering, reconciliation, and analysis.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to investigate complex issues, identify root causes, and drive actions through completion.
• Ability to work effectively with internal partners and external transportation providers.
• Experience with structured problem-solving or continuous-improvement methods.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a primary point of contact for assigned transportation providers, providing carrier coaching, resolving payment concerns, clarifying process expectations, and escalating recurring or systemic issues.
• Use transportation and financial systems to investigate problems, validate information, process corrections, and move issues through resolution.
• Develop a working knowledge of assigned carriers, transportation lanes, customers, tariffs, systems, and daily operational processes.
• Partner with transportation operations, carrier management, purchasing, finance, stewardship, master data, sites, and other internal teams to resolve freight-payment and transportation-process defects.
• Perform structured root-cause analysis and support corrective and preventive actions for recurring operational issues.
• Create and maintain process documentation, standard work, business-continuity materials, audit documentation, and knowledge-transfer resources.
• Communicate risks, findings, priorities, recommendations, and progress clearly to carriers, teammates, internal partners, and leadership.

Skills

Analytical skills

Excel proficiency

Communication skills

Root-cause analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

SAP

Coupa

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

Procter & Gamble seeks a Freight Audit & Payment Analyst in Cincinnati to ensure timely, accurate payments to transportation providers while safeguarding internal controls. The role blends daily operations with data analysis, carrier engagement, and continuous improvement across transportation systems in the region.

You will monitor freight-payment performance, investigate exceptions, resolve defects, and identify opportunities to automate or simplify work.