Paul Trowbridge

Finance & Pricing Leader | Strategic Costing | Data & Analytics

Professional Summary

Results-driven finance professional with 15+ years of experience spanning cost accounting, pricing strategy, and financial planning & analysis. Proven track record of driving revenue growth through disciplined pricing — including 65% price-based revenue growth over three years — while building financial infrastructure from the ground up. Combines deep ERP and database expertise (SQL, Python, PowerBI) with strong business acumen to deliver insights that directly influence executive decisions.

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

Technical Skills

Languages & Tools: SQL, Python, R, JavaScript, VBA — data feed integration, UI development, macro libraries, custom formulas

Data Platforms: Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Db2, PowerBI, JupyterLab

ERP Systems: SAP, Epicor CMS

Core Competencies: Pricing Strategy, FP&A, Cost Accounting, Financial Consolidation, Forecasting & Budgeting, MRP, Transfer Pricing