Fola Akinsanya

Fola Akinsanya Medellin, CO-- Work Experience PR Consultant (Remote) Gallium Ventures - London, Greater London February 2019 to Present Focusing on • Writing engaging pitches for high profile clients, with results from the likes of Hypebeast, TechRadar, Stuff, ZDNet etc. • Managing journalist relationships PR Account Executive & Manager Publicize - Medellin, CO August 2018 to Present I manage a number of accounts and campaigns of my own from start to end, as well as work with another account manager as an executive to • Manage creative and PR campaigns • Build engaging relationships with clients (including upsell), media outlets and journalists • Create strategy plans for clients based on their specific media goals/needs • Media monitor for news stories and opportunities across a number of industries • Write pitches to shape engaging stories and raise client profiles (results with top tier publications including Entrepreneur, Business Insider, Quartz, Forbes, Crunchbase etc.) Finance Analyst British Telecom- BT July 2017 to Present Role was focused on providing financial control and commercial finance support to encourage short and long term growth of the P&L. Main responsibilities here included: • Supporting the budgeting, outlook and month end reporting processes for IoT and Marketing • Providing finance support in pricing, value steering, cost optimisation, governance, and trading. • Produce financial modelling support for business cases and ad-hoc projects • Supporting on budget risks and opportunities to help ensure impacts quantified and plans implemented. • Conduct ad hoc analysis as required, and present findings and recommendations to key stakeholders. FInance Professional British Telecom- BT September 2014 to July 2017 September 2014 to July 2017 I worked in 6 month rotations between the different sub-teams within Group Transformation at BT; the opportunity discovery team, revenue assurance and the implementation team. • Discovery team: Key achievement was I strengthened my financial data analysis skills. Here, during my first rotation I was able to identify c.£11m of opportunity through FTE efficiency and management spans analysis in the sales department of the BT France business, which was signed off by senior management. • Revenue assurance: worked as an auditor looking at Managed Broadband contracts with BT's most valued customers. Here I identified various revenue leakages due to oversights of contractual commitments, recovered any monies owed to BT as a result of this and plugged any leakage areas to avoid repeat billing errors. • Implementation: Managed a programme which aimed to centralise BT's pay plan teams into a centre of excellence which now sits in B&PS. Being the Programme Manager for the initiative involved carrying out analysis to identify the scope of the opportunity then planning and overseeing the process of moving individuals into the centre of excellence in a manner that would maximise efficiency gains without disrupting the vital service provided by BT's pay plan teams. • Final rotation is within the IMO (Integration Management Office) which is the team responsible for managing the integration of EE into BT Group. I joined the team post-acquisition and have since been doing financial control work centrally for the programme, working with key stakeholders across the business to manage the tracking and reporting of synergy benefits as well as the central budget assigned to Andy Wells for the Integration (up to MD and CFO level). Co-founder of Driven to Succeed mentoring scheme www.driventosucceed.org 2013 to 2017 Independent progression and academic mentoring scheme aimed at helping 16-20 year old students of ethnic minority to achieve the best of their ability. The scheme pairs mentees up with volunteering young working professional mentors in order to help them to achieve their goals. (Website: www.driventosucceed.org) Finance Intern Group Transformation August 2013 to September 2013 • Assisted on a project that aimed to improve efficiencies in the running of BT's international markets. • Developed my skills in running data analysis on various financial datasets in aid of transforming costs in Global telco-circuits markets, then assisting to create recommendations and action plans to reduce costs in this area. Education BSc. in Economics University of Birmingham 2011 to 2014 A Levels in Mathematics, Economics, English Literature, Philosophy & Ethics in Mathematics Mossbourne Community Academy & Sir Clive Bourne Sixth Form Centre 2004 to 2011