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Paul Trowbridge

Stow, OH | 330.819.3826 | paul@hptrow.me | https://hptrow.me

Corporate Pricing Manager - The HC Companies, Inc. 2019 - Present

  • Lead new pricing function established for the company
  • Establish pricing targets and goals for quoted business
  • Review all quotes and work with sales team to keep pricing in line with objectives
  • Maintain price lists
  • Ensure pricing is correct from quote to cash
  • R language plotting and statistical analysis to base pricing decisions on

Cost Analyst - `The HC Companies, Inc. 2012 - 2019 $200 million manufacturer of plastic horticultural containers owned by Wingate Partners (4 US, 2 Can sites)

  • Forecasting
    1. Develop sales planning framework and program
    2. Develop MRP logic to build production plans from sales plan
    3. Forecast balance sheet along with revolver and collateral balances.
  • Accounting
    • Build in-house financial consolidation logic
    • Prepare internal financial statements
    • Furnish live auto consolidating pivot of financials for mid-month reviews
    • Bank recs for all cash and intercompany balances
    • Rec L/T balance sheet items (revolver, term loans, intangibles, promissory notes, all equity)
    • Accounting for mixed asset/stock acquisition
    • In-house fixer for whatever comes up during close
  • Systems/BI
    • Develop test environment for staged cost rolls to model impact
    • Build out sales data set and partner with commercial team to craft disciplined strategic pricing approach
    • Develop SQL repository to collaborate with other users on (80k lines)
    • Write small C# dotnet core ETL command line program to sync data from legacy ERP to Postgres
    • Pioneer MS Power BI for the organization and demonstrate capabilities

Cost Analyst PPG Industries, Barberton Ohio 2010-2012 $1.5 billion Optical & Specialty Chemicals division of PPG Industries (NYSE-PPG, Barberton plant)

  • Responsibilities with standard costs, cost system, and all period end standard cost processing
  • Annual operating plan coordination & consolidation
  • Provide inventory & account accuracy plant-wide (reconciliations, physical inventories, etc.)
  • Support (and implementation) of conversion from old proprietary COBOL system to SAP

Cost Analyst Masco Retail Cabinet Group, Waverly Ohio 2007-2010 $1 billion division of Masco (NYSE-MAS) manufacturing assembled and ready to assemble cabinetry (1 of 5 plants)

  • Compile annual budgets and monthly spending forecasts
  • Develop standard labor and overhead burden rates and explain subsequent variances
  • Provide support for system conversion and standard cost system implementation
  • Develop and maintain customized BOM explosion program & cost environment
  • Maintain inventory accuracy through analyses and quarterly physicals
  • Develop reporting out of ultra-large databases (billions of records)

The University of Akron BS in Accounting GPA 3.3 2002-2006