Senior P2P Process Analyst (Automotive)

Location: Troy, Michigan, USA

Company

Slate is building safe, affordable, customizable vehicles in the USA as part of its reindustrialization mission.

What you will do

• Conduct formal root-cause analyses of recurring billing, invoicing, receiving, matching, and payment failures using 5 Whys, fishbone analysis, process mapping, and Pareto analysis.
• Own and improve SOPs across the full bill-to-pay lifecycle, and train AP analysts, buyers, plant stakeholders, and budget owners.
• Partner with Accounting, Purchasing, Plant Receiving, Production Controls, and suppliers to reduce upstream defects and improve three-way matching.
• Diagnose ERP and P2P exceptions, design tolerance, blocking, and routing logic, and support SAP implementation hypercare, testing, and go-live validation.
• Evaluate automation opportunities including AI-assisted invoice capture, straight-through processing, supplier portals, and payment method optimization.
• Report bill-to-pay performance, strengthen payment and vendor-master controls, support audits, and provide month-end close analysis.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, supply chain, business, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in accounts payable, procure-to-pay, bill-to-pay operations, or finance process improvement, including SOP authorship.
• Experience owning and presenting complete root-cause analyses with corrective actions and measured results.
• Strong understanding of purchase orders, receiving, invoicing, price and quantity variances, GR/IR, three-way matching, payment terms, and non-PO spend.
• ERP experience in a PO-driven environment; hands-on SAP experience is strongly preferred. Advanced Excel, process mapping, and Lean or Six Sigma skills are required or expected.
• Ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and suppliers without direct authority, plus hands-on use of AI tools for documentation, analysis, and testing.

Nice to have

• Zip experience.
• Manufacturing or automotive experience and exposure to direct or indirect material spend.
• EDI or e-invoicing familiarity.
• Lean or Six Sigma certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Startup environment focused on ingenuity, resourcefulness, and continuous improvement.
• Values include safety, customer focus, teamwork, respectful collaboration, and operational discipline.
• Cross-functional work with Accounting, Purchasing, plant operations, suppliers, Treasury, and Controllership.