Accounts Payable Analyst - Freight Audit & Payment

Responsibilities

• Manage high-profile carrier accounts, including export, ocean, drayage, and truckload carriers
• Support customs and border duty activity, including plant-level allocation and related issue resolution
• Perform month-end close activities related to freight payables, including review, reconciliation, and issue follow-up
• Analyze data to identify trends, resolve recurring issues, and implement process improvements
• Serve as a liaison between IT and the freight payment team to troubleshoot system issues, support testing, and resolve carrier-related exceptions
• Serve as a team lead for carrier issue management, including escalation support, trend identification, and coordination with applicable parties
• Identify patterns and trends and resolve issues with applicable parties
• Monitor settlement errors and research root causes
• Prepare ad hoc reporting to support issue resolution, trend analysis, and leadership visibility as needed

Requirements

• Manage high-profile carrier accounts, including export, ocean, drayage, and truckload carriers
• Support customs and border duty activity, including plant-level allocation and related issue resolution
• Perform month-end close activities related to freight payables, including review, reconciliation, and issue follow-up
• Analyze data to identify trends, resolve recurring issues, and implement process improvements
• Serve as a liaison between IT and the freight payment team to troubleshoot system issues, support testing, and resolve carrier-related exceptions
• Serve as a team lead for carrier issue management, including escalation support, trend identification, and coordination with applicable parties
• Identify patterns and trends and resolve issues with applicable parties
• Monitor settlement errors and research root causes
• Prepare ad hoc reporting to support issue resolution, trend analysis, and leadership visibility as needed

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, management, logistics, or a related field preferred; equivalent experience, including five or more years in freight payables, will also be considered
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate clearly with internal teams, IT partners, carriers, and leadership
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• Strong problem-solving skills, a continuous-improvement mindset, and the ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a team-oriented environment
• Ability to balance routine responsibilities, time-sensitive priorities, and ad hoc requests in a fast-paced environment
• Advanced Excel skills, including the ability to analyze data, identify trends, and support reporting needs
• Demonstrated potential to grow into expanded responsibilities or a future leadership role
• Preferred experience with Oracle Transportation Management (OTM)

Skills

• Advanced Excel skills, including the ability to analyze data, identify trends, and support reporting needs

Benefits

• Corporate culture based on integrity, respect, accountability, and excellence
• Comprehensive training and ongoing learning and development opportunities to support career growth
• Competitive compensation that reflects skills, competencies, experience, and potential

Pay

• Not specified

Schedule

• Not specified