Paul Trowbridge

The HC Companies - Wingate Partners

$300 million manufacturer of horticultural containers owned by Wingate Partners

Corporate Pricing Manager 2019 - Present

• Lead new pricing function for the company
• Develop, advocate, and execute price optimization strategy
• Build credibility & confidence with sales team through commitment, patience, and results
• Train staff to review all quoted business and apply current pricing guidance
• 70% price-based revenue growth over 3 years while gaining market share within a commodity product industry

Cost Manager 2012 - 2019

• Setup New Accounting Processes Post Acquisition
  • Build in-house financial consolidation logic
  • Transfer Pricing and all intercompany accounting & elims
  • Rec and Roll-forward L/T balance sheet items (revolver, term loans, intangibles, promissory notes, OCI, equity)
  • Bank recs, 401k, payroll
  • Accounting for mixed asset/stock acquisition
• Forecast Capabilities and Turn-Around
  • Develop planning framework and program for quick ground up detail sales plan from sales team
  • Develop MRP logic to build production plans from detail sales plan
  • Forecast balance sheet along with revolver and collateral balances
• Data Deployment and Business Intelligence Introduction
  • Synchronize quotes, orders, invoices with the ledger in a single data set for the org to consume
  • Write Java ETL application to load data warehouse from live ERP
  • Maintain linux server for pricing, sales, payroll workloads
  • Pioneer MS Power BI for the organization and demonstrate capabilities through pricing analysis

PPG Industries Optical & Specialty Chemicals

$1.5 billion division of PPG Industries (NYSE-PPG, Barberton plant)

Cost Analyst 2010 - 2012

• 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

Masco Retail Cabinet Group, Waverly Ohio

$1 billion division of Masco (NYSE-MAS) manufacturing assembled and ready to assemble cabinetry

Cost Analyst 2007-2010

• 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

Education

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