Wayne Stone Email & Phone Number

Greater New Orleans Area

Greenville, Mississippi

• Lead multiple Lean Six Sigma projects with 5 or more team members from multiple plant departments and company business units to advance continuous improvement
• Use LSS DMAIC methodology and statistical tools to identify waste in the process, determine root-causes, and generate low cost solutions.
• Train plant Yellow Belts in LSS principles and mentor plant Green Belts in using LSS methodology and tools
• Performed various plant accounting functions: reconciled and posted daily production, scrap, & WIP; calculated and reported production recovery; reconciled daily shipping, investigated & corrected shipping process.

• Provided consulting services to large corporations spanning multiple industries, including Faurecia Automotive Seating, Novelis, ThyssenKrupp Elevator, Weatherford, Baker Hughes, Resolution Performance Products, Vopak.
• Developed and supported all aspects of domestic and international Hyperion Enterprise application security, entity & account structures, logic, data conversions, consolidations, financial reporting, Retrieve for Excel.
• Documented work performed on Hyperion Enterprise applications for knowledge transfer

- Supported financial reporting and consolidations for financial reporting, financial planning and analysis, and corporate tax groups during the month- end and fiscal year- end close, yearly budget, and monthly forecast updates by maintaining and supporting all aspects of Hyperion Enterprise versions 4.3 and 5.1, Hyperion Report Writer, Retrieve for Excel.

- Supported financial reporting and consolidations for planning and analysis department during month- end close, yearly budget, and monthly forecast updates by administrating Hyperion Enterprise 4.3, Hyperion Report Writer, Retrieve for Excel, and Hyperion LedgerLink- Communicated with international networks and network accounting back office group.

- Supported all aspects of three Hyperion Enterprise 4.3 applications for Corporate, FP&A, and Tax- Converted Hyperion Enterprise 4.3 to Hyperion Enterprise 4.7 (Project was 95% complete when corporate accounting was relocated to Denver)- Ensured integrity and accuracy of financial data by developing and maintaining Hyperion Enterprise security and.

Financial Systems Analyst- Continued to support collection and billing databases used by accounting staff for reconciliation, analysis, and monthly close- Evaluated accounting processes for development and automation opportunities- Developed and maintained automated cost center expense allocations and general ledger detail report distributions- Developed.