3.9 KiB
Paul Trowbridge
Stow, OH | 330.819.3826 | paul@hptrow.me
Cost Analyst - The HC Companies, Inc. 2012 - Present
$200 million manufacturer of plastic horticultural containers owned by Wingate Partners (4 US, 2 Can sites, Located at HQ)
- Forecasting
- Develop sales planning framework for fast but highly detailed sales plan for subsequent production & collections modeling
- Develop MRP logic for quickly spooling out detailed production plans from above sales plan
- Compile plant forecasts and build out entire forecasted ledger including cash, revolver & collateral for asset-based lending
- Accounting
- Design & automate financial consolidation logic; execute monthly; furnish in consolidating financials pivot
- Prepare external financials as well as live, highly granular, pre-consolidated internal financial cube for all financials users
- Bank rec process linking every bank statement line item to every line on the general ledger cash accounts
- Rec L/T balance sheet items (revolver, term loans, intangibles, promissory notes, all equity)
- Accounting for mixed asset/stock acquisition of company and setup for new entities while retaining old data for comps
- Implement transfer pricing, foreign exchange re-measurement, & coordinate intercompany balances & cash flow
- Systems
- Systems implementation, design & build chart of accounts, set functionality, load history, test & cut-over
- Rebuild standard cost logic for reporting & visibility to operations, ops generate significant savings
- Develop product costing environment to enhance visibility for R&D efforts
- Build out sales data set and partner with commercial team to craft disciplined strategic pricing approach
- Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence
- Develop SQL repository to collaborate with other users on (80k lines)
- Developing real-time data warehouse replicating ERP (120MM rows syncing with 5 minutes latency)
- Develop ETL environment for external freight, payroll, cash bank accounts, collateral & revolver accounts
- 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)
Various Construction/Remodeling 2000-2007
The University of Akron BS in Accounting GPA 3.3 2002-2006
Reporting Tools: Excel(advanced), Power BI, Cognos, Jupyter, R
Environment: Linux: ssh/tmux/vim/git, Windows: VS Code, DBeaver, WSL
Language/Script: SQL, VBA, Regular Expressions, JSON/PATH, Bash,
Systems: SAP, Oracle, Hyperion Enterprise & HFM, JD Edwards, PRMS, CMS
Databases: SQL Server, PostgreSQL, DB2, UniData (multi-value), Oracle, Access