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Paul Trowbridge
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### [The HC Companies](https://hc-companies.com/) - [Wingate Partners](https://wingatepartners.com/)
$300 million manufacturer of horticultural containers owned by Wingate Partners
**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 while gaining market share within a commodity product industry
**Cost Manager** _2012 - 2019_
* Setup New Accounting Processes, Complete Month End Accounting
* Build in-house financial consolidation logic
* 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, payroll confuguration and reconciliations
* Accounting for mixed asset/stock acquisition
* Forecast Capabilities and Turn-Around
* Develop planning framework and program for quick ground up detail sales plan from sales team
* Develop MRP logic to build production plans from detail sales plan
* Forecast balance sheet along with revolver and collateral balances
* Data Deployment and Business Intelligence Introduction
* Synchronize quotes, orders, invoices with the ledger in a single data set for the org to consume
* 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
### PPG Industries Optical & Specialty Chemicals
_$1.5 billion division of PPG Industries (NYSE-PPG, Barberton plant)_
**Cost Analyst** _2010 - 2012_
* 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
### Masco Retail Cabinet Group, Waverly Ohio
_$1 billion division of Masco (NYSE-MAS) manufacturing assembled and ready to assemble cabinetry_
**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
* Maintain inventory accuracy through analyses and quarterly physicals
## Education
The University of Akron BS in Accounting GPA 3.3 2002-2006