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