Sr. Analyst, Accounts Payable

Position Details

Department: Accounting
Reports to: Manager, Accounts Payable
Location: Dearborn
Job Classification: Hybrid
FLSA Status: Exempt
Job Band: Professional

Job Summary

This role provides senior-level strategic and analytical leadership across Accounts Payable and Travel & Expense, with expanded ownership for enterprise insight, risk management, and cross-functional influence.

Associate Responsibilities

• Independently identify, prioritize, and lead AP and T&E automation initiatives, including technology enhancements and touchless invoice expansion.
• Assist with implementation and ongoing support of AP and T&E systems, tools, and workflows.
• Own advanced AP analytics to identify trends across invoice volume, exception rates, payment timing, duplicate payments, and vendor behavior, translating insights into recommended actions.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on AP controls, proactively identifying control breakdowns or unusual transaction patterns and driving fact-based remediation recommendations.
• Develop, monitor, and interpret key AP performance metrics (e.g., invoice cycle time, % touchless invoices, discount capture) and present findings to leadership.
• Partner closely with Treasury to support working capital optimization initiatives, including payment term compliance, discount strategies, and cash forecasting inputs.
• Lead senior-level analytical review of AP balances, accruals, and flux explanations during month-end close with minimal oversight.
• Assess invoice cutoff accuracy and financial completeness risk, independently identifying issues and coordinating resolution.
• Translate AP and T&E trends into concise, executive-level narratives that inform forecasts, actuals, audits, and leadership decision-making.
• Serve as functional backup for AP payment processing and vendor setup activities, as well as backup support for the Travel & Expense Program Specialist including employee inquiries, issue resolution and expense auditing.
• Act as escalation point for complex vendor, payment, or system issues with material financial or reputational risk.
• Mentor AP and T&E Specialists and Analysts by setting analytical standards, reviewing complex work, and elevating team capability.

Required Education

Minimum of 6 years of experience in AP, FP&A, Accounting, or Finance Operations with ownership of complex analytical workstreams.

Required Skills & Experience

• Deep understanding of procure-to-pay and its impact on cash flow and working capital.
• Advanced Excel skills (Power Query, pivots, data analysis).
• ERP experience required (SAP S/4HANA or similar); ability to understand system design impacts on accounting and controls.
• Experience with Microsoft Power Platform tools, including Power BI, Power Apps and Power Automate, to support and enhance automated solutions preferred.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and support time-sensitive activities such as month-end and year-end close.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to operate independently, apply judgment, and influence outcomes without formal authority.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across teams.

Physical Requirements And Working Conditions

Typical office environment; office setting. Extended periods of time sitting, standing, typing on a computer is required. Willing to work some evenings or weekends if necessary.

Hybrid Location

This position has a Hybrid location: Associate will work on-site regularly as needed for work activities.

Carhartt is a tobacco free workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, disability, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, sexual orientation, age, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.