Paul Trowbridge
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- Reframe summary around building integrated financial models connected to value drivers - Rename Technical Skills to Infrastructure & Tools, rewrite as narrative paragraph - Add nuance to 65% revenue growth bullet (market conditions vs. pricing infrastructure) - Fix CPQ pricing module bullet tense and phrasing Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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<h1 class="title">Paul Trowbridge</h1>
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<p>Finance & Pricing Leader | Strategic Costing | Data & Analytics</p>
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<h2 id="professional-summary">Professional Summary</h2>
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<p>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.</p>
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<h2 id="professional-experience">Professional Experience</h2>
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<h3 id="growscape">Growscape</h3>
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<p><em>Twinsburg, OH</em></p>
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<p><strong>Director of Financial Planning and Analysis</strong> — Dec 2025 – Present</p>
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<li>Own Platinum Operating Company Reporting Package for private equity stakeholders</li>
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<li>Prepare lender reporting and covenant compliance packages</li>
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<li>Develop OpCo deck slides for executive and board-level presentations</li>
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<li>Build consolidated automated sales dataset spanning subsidiary ERP systems</li>
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<li>Build consolidated automated on-demand trial balance across all subsidiary general ledgers</li>
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<p><strong>Director of Special Projects & Pricing</strong> — Sep 2024 – Dec 2025</p>
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<li>Developed pricing strategy balancing profitability goals with competitor positioning, volume opportunities, and product features</li>
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<li>Programmed and deployed a pricing module inside custom CPQ software, operationalizing pricing strategy for fast, accurate field execution</li>
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<li>Built PowerBI dashboard for quotes and orders used daily by the sales team</li>
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<li>Supported two pricing analysts executing pricing strategy across large customer programs, quote reviews, and price list management</li>
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<p><strong>Corporate Pricing Manager</strong> — Apr 2019 – Oct 2024</p>
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<li>Built and led the company’s first dedicated pricing function, establishing strategy, processes, and governance from inception</li>
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<li>Built the pricing infrastructure and discipline that captured 65% price-based revenue growth over three years — translating supply-constrained market conditions into realized margin through consistent, data-backed pricing execution</li>
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<li>Pioneered PowerBI adoption across the organization; built a sales data store and analytics hub — including rolling forecasts — synchronized with live financial statements</li>
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<li>Contributed to development of a web-based quoting tool enabling the sales team to model pricing scenarios in real time</li>
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<li>Trained and coached sales staff on pricing discipline and guidance, cultivating credibility through consistent, data-backed recommendations</li>
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<li>Built an enhanced production dataset and MRP environment to analyze cost and price changes against multi-year historical activity</li>
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<p><strong>Cost Manager</strong> — Aug 2015 – Apr 2019</p>
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<li>Led full accounting systems conversion: designed and built chart of accounts, configured functionality, set balances, and managed cutover</li>
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<li>Managed accounting for a complex business combination (mixed share and asset sale), including opening balance sheet and historical balance preservation</li>
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<li>Implemented transfer pricing and intercompany accounting; built automated financial consolidation process across USD and CAD entities</li>
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<li>Developed ad-hoc consolidations and real-time financial statement logic that became the primary finance data source company-wide</li>
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<li>Owned accuracy and reconciliation of all key balance sheet accounts: cash, revolver, notes payable, intangibles, equity, and payroll</li>
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<li>Configured payroll system ledger interface and reconciled all compensation and benefits against disbursements</li>
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<li>Developed forecasting tools for sales, inventory, and operations planning; transformed income statement forecasts into full balance sheet and cash flow projections</li>
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<p><strong>Cost Analyst</strong> — Aug 2012 – Aug 2015</p>
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<li>Maintained standard costs and all period-end standard cost processing</li>
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<li>Supported accounting systems conversion and standard cost implementation</li>
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<li>Provided inventory and account accuracy through reconciliations and physical inventories</li>
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<li>Developed ad-hoc financial reporting and analytics across departments</li>
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<h3 id="ppg-industries">PPG Industries</h3>
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<p><em>Barberton, OH | $1.5B Optical & Specialty Chemicals division (NYSE: PPG)</em></p>
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<p><strong>Cost Analyst</strong> — May 2010 – Oct 2012</p>
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<li>Maintained standard costs and all period-end standard cost processing; coordinated and consolidated the annual operating plan at the plant level</li>
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<li>Supported implementation of conversion from a legacy COBOL-based system to SAP</li>
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<li>Provided inventory and account accuracy plant-wide through reconciliations and physical inventories</li>
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<li>Developed streamlined reporting through mainframe data extraction and custom product structure explosion tools</li>
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<h3 id="masco-cabinetry">Masco Cabinetry</h3>
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<p><em>Waverly, OH | $1B division of Masco Corp. (NYSE: MAS)</em></p>
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<p><strong>Cost Analyst</strong> — Apr 2007 – May 2010</p>
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<li>Compiled annual budgets and monthly forecasts for a $250M manufacturing site; developed standard labor and overhead burden rates and explained subsequent variances</li>
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<li>Designed and maintained a customized BOM explosion program and cost environment; supported system conversion and standard cost implementation</li>
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<li>Developed efficient reporting out of ultra-large databases (billions of records); maintained inventory accuracy through analyses and quarterly physicals</li>
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<h2 id="education">Education</h2>
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<p><strong>Bachelor of Science in Accounting</strong> — The University of Akron, 2006</p>
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<h2 id="infrastructure-tools">Infrastructure & Tools</h2>
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<p>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.</p>
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