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Paul Trowbridge
The HC Companies - Wingate Partners
$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 Post Acquisition
- Build in-house financial consolidation logic
- Transfer Pricing and all intercompany accounting & elims
- Rec and Roll-forward L/T balance sheet items (revolver, term loans, intangibles, promissory notes, OCI, equity)
- Bank recs, 401k, payroll
- 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