--- title: Paul Trowbridge --- Finance & Pricing Leader | Strategic Costing | Data & Analytics --- ## Professional Summary I build financial models of the business — integrated structures that connect pricing, cost, and operational drivers to financial outcomes across the P&L. My work gives executives and business unit leaders a clear line of sight between their decisions and results. Over 15 years in manufacturing, I've built this infrastructure from scratch at every level: pricing functions, cost environments, consolidation frameworks, and analytics platforms that became the primary financial data source for the organizations I served. --- ## Professional Experience ### Growscape *Twinsburg, OH* **Director of Financial Planning and Analysis** — Dec 2025 – Present - Own Platinum Operating Company Reporting Package for private equity stakeholders - Prepare lender reporting and covenant compliance packages - Develop OpCo deck slides for executive and board-level presentations - Build consolidated automated sales dataset spanning subsidiary ERP systems - Build consolidated automated on-demand trial balance across all subsidiary general ledgers **Director of Special Projects & Pricing** — Sep 2024 – Dec 2025 - Developed automated pricing module operating inside custom CPQ software to enable fast, accurate field pricing - Developed pricing strategy balancing profitability goals with competitor positioning, volume opportunities, and product features - Built PowerBI dashboard for quotes and orders used daily by the sales team - Supported two pricing analysts executing pricing strategy across large customer programs, quote reviews, and price list management **Corporate Pricing Manager** — Apr 2019 – Oct 2024 - Built and led the company's first dedicated pricing function, establishing strategy, processes, and governance from inception - Developed and executed a price optimization strategy that delivered 65% price-based revenue growth over three years - Pioneered PowerBI adoption across the organization; built a sales data store and analytics hub — including rolling forecasts — synchronized with live financial statements - Contributed to development of a web-based quoting tool enabling the sales team to model pricing scenarios in real time - Trained and coached sales staff on pricing discipline and guidance, cultivating credibility through consistent, data-backed recommendations - Built an enhanced production dataset and MRP environment to analyze cost and price changes against multi-year historical activity **Cost Manager** — Aug 2015 – Apr 2019 - Led full accounting systems conversion: designed and built chart of accounts, configured functionality, set balances, and managed cutover - Managed accounting for a complex business combination (mixed share and asset sale), including opening balance sheet and historical balance preservation - Implemented transfer pricing and intercompany accounting; built automated financial consolidation process across USD and CAD entities - Developed ad-hoc consolidations and real-time financial statement logic that became the primary finance data source company-wide - Owned accuracy and reconciliation of all key balance sheet accounts: cash, revolver, notes payable, intangibles, equity, and payroll - Configured payroll system ledger interface and reconciled all compensation and benefits against disbursements - Developed forecasting tools for sales, inventory, and operations planning; transformed income statement forecasts into full balance sheet and cash flow projections **Cost Analyst** — Aug 2012 – Aug 2015 - Maintained standard costs and all period-end standard cost processing - Supported accounting systems conversion and standard cost implementation - Provided inventory and account accuracy through reconciliations and physical inventories - Developed ad-hoc financial reporting and analytics across departments --- ### PPG Industries *Barberton, OH | $1.5B Optical & Specialty Chemicals division (NYSE: PPG)* **Cost Analyst** — May 2010 – Oct 2012 - Maintained standard costs and all period-end standard cost processing; coordinated and consolidated the annual operating plan at the plant level - Supported implementation of conversion from a legacy COBOL-based system to SAP - Provided inventory and account accuracy plant-wide through reconciliations and physical inventories - Developed streamlined reporting through mainframe data extraction and custom product structure explosion tools --- ### Masco Cabinetry *Waverly, OH | $1B division of Masco Corp. (NYSE: MAS)* **Cost Analyst** — Apr 2007 – May 2010 - Compiled annual budgets and monthly forecasts for a $250M manufacturing site; developed standard labor and overhead burden rates and explained subsequent variances - Designed and maintained a customized BOM explosion program and cost environment; supported system conversion and standard cost implementation - Developed efficient reporting out of ultra-large databases (billions of records); maintained inventory accuracy through analyses and quarterly physicals --- ## Education **Bachelor of Science in Accounting** — The University of Akron, 2006 --- ## Infrastructure & Tools SQL is the primary development language across this work — approximately 100,000 lines written spanning analytics, reporting, PowerBI data feeds, and live operational pricing software. Databases are administered directly: PostgreSQL deployed on Linux with a custom-built ETL pipeline; SQL Server on Windows; Db2, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL kept in sync as a unified sales data backend. PowerBI reporting built end-to-end, including all underlying data models. Additional tools include VBA for Excel extensibility and R for price modeling analysis. ERP experience spans SAP and Epicor CMS in manufacturing environments.