NA Transportation - Freight Audit & 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

Job Location CINCINNATI GENERAL OFFICES

The Freight Audit & Payment Analyst helps ensure that transportation providers are paid accurately and on time while protecting the company’s internal-control and stewardship requirements. The analyst supports the end-to-end freight audit and payment process across the transportation systems used in the region. This role combines daily operational execution with data analysis, carrier engagement, issue resolution, and continuous improvement. The analyst monitors freight-payment performance, investigates exceptions, resolves process and system defects, and identifies opportunities to automate or simplify work. Success in this role means: Transportation providers receive accurate and timely payment. Carrier questions and escalations are addressed with clear ownership and follow-through. Operational risks and recurring defects are surfaced through data and structured problem solving. Processes are documented, controlled, and audit-ready. Manual work and recurring losses are reduced through standardization, automation, and continuous improvement. Internal partners and transportation providers receive clear, timely, and professional communication.

Key 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.

Job Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Strong analytical, critical-thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, including the ability to organize, filter, reconcile, and analyze data.
• 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 business partners and external transportation providers.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy.
• Demonstrated ownership, curiosity, collaboration, and willingness to improve established processes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with a Transportation Management System and SAP.
• Previous experience in transportation, logistics, supply chain, freight payment, accounts payable.
• Experience with Coupa or another purchase-order or procurement platform.
• Intermediate Excel skills, including PivotTables, lookup functions, formulas, conditional formatting, and data reconciliation.
• Experience working with EDI transactions, transportation invoices, freight bills, rates, tariffs, accessorial charges, vouchers, or purchase orders.
• Experience communicating directly with transportation providers, suppliers, or other external business partners.
• Experience creating process maps, standard operating procedures, or other forms of process documentation.
• Experience using structured problem-solving or continuous-improvement methods.
• Exposure to Power BI, Tableau, KNIME, Power Query, workflow automation, or similar data and automation tools.
• The team’s documented systems and improvement work include SAP, TMS, Coupa, Power BI, Tableau, KNIME, automation, and continuous improvement.

Compensation for roles at P&G varies depending on a wide array of non-discriminatory factors including but not limited to the specific office location, role, degree/credentials, relevant skill set, and level of relevant experience. At P&G compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.

Total rewards at P&G include salary + bonus (if applicable) + benefits.

We are committed to providing equal opportunities in employment.

We value diversity and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Immigration Sponsorship is not available for this role.

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Job Schedule Full time

Job Number R000159562

Job Segmentation Entry Level

Starting Pay / Salary Range $55,900.00 - $77,600.00 / year

P&G was founded over 180 years ago as a simple soap and candle company. Today, we’re the world’s largest consumer goods company and home to iconic, trusted brands that make life a little bit easier in small but meaningful ways. We’ve spanned three centuries thanks to three simple ideas: leadership, innovation and citizenship. The insight, innovation and passion of talented teams has helped us grow into a global company that is governed responsibly and ethically, that is open and transparent, and that supports good causes and protects the environment. This is a place where you can be proud to work and do something that matters.