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