Paul Trowbridge

$250 million manufacturer of horticultural containers owned by Platinum Equity

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

Cost Manager 2012 - 2019

Acquisition - Stand up independent ledgers and reporting
- Accounting for mixed asset/stock acquisition; establish opening balance sheet
- Build financial consolidation process with USD and CAD entities
- Develop transfer pricing and all intercompany accounting & eliminations
- Rec and Roll-forward L/T balance sheet items (revolver, term loans, intangibles, promissory notes, OCI, equity)
- Bank recs, 401k reconciliations, new payroll system confuguration and reconciliations
Detailed Ground-Up Forecasting & Planning
- Develop sales forecasting tool to build and walk detail sales plans
- Develop MRP logic to build production plans from detail sales plan
- Forecast balance sheet along with revolver and collateral balances
Data & Business Intelligence
- Develop sales reporting database; fresh visibility and initiatives
- 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

$1.5 billion optical and specialty chemicals division (NYSE-PPG)

Cost Analyst 2010 - 2012

Responsibilities with standard costs, cost system, inventory, and all period end standard cost processing
Annual operating plan coordination & consolidation
serve as SME for conversion from old proprietary COBOL system to SAP

$1 billion division of Masco (NYSE-MAS)

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

Education

The University of Akron | B.S. in Accounting | 2002-2006