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**Paul Trowbridge **

Stow, Ohio | 330.819.3826 | paul@hptrow.me | LinkedIn

------------ The HC Companies ------------

$250 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

Cost Manager 2012 - 2019

  • Acquisition - Stand up independent ledgers and reporting
    • Accounting for mixed asset/stock acquisition; establish opening balance sheet
    • Build financial consolidation process with USD and CAD entities
    • Develop 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, new payroll system confuguration and reconciliations
  • Detailed Ground-Up Forecasting & Planning
    • Develop sales forecasting tool to build and walk detail sales plans
    • Develop MRP logic to build production plans from detail sales plan
    • Forecast balance sheet along with revolver and collateral balances
  • Data & Business Intelligence
    • Develop sales reporting database; fresh visibility and initiatives
    • 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 ------------

$1.5 billion optical and specialty chemicals division (NYSE-PPG)

Cost Analyst 2010 - 2012

  • Responsibilities with standard costs, cost system, inventory, and all period end standard cost processing
  • Annual operating plan coordination & consolidation
  • serve as SME for conversion from old proprietary COBOL system to SAP

------------ Masco Retail Cabinet Group ------------

$1 billion division of Masco (NYSE-MAS)

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

Education

The University of Akron | B.S. in Accounting | 2002-2006