Sonya Cook (Aca) Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

London Area, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

• Responsible for implementing robust project structures and substantial process improvements across the entire company as the first Project Manager at Vitl.• Used customer-centric prioritisation frameworks (e.g. RICE) and conducted capacity reviews to plan quarterly company roadmaps based on the resources available. • Simultaneously managed a diverse range of projects from inception through to completion, ensuring that business requirements were gathered, understood, tracked and met.• Conducted results flow UX interviews to pinpoint problem areas of the existing user journey in order to create a scope of iterative solutions based on the information collected. • Performed competitor research on checkout upsell modules, identifying options for testing variations to improve conversion rates. • Facilitated quarterly planning workshops with the company’s c-suite, identifying significant opportunities and risks for the business. • Collaborated across remote and in-person teams spanning across multiple departments, ensuring smooth execution of day to day project tasks.• Orchestrated weekly sprints across four departments (FE, BE, Magento, and Design), aligning them with business priorities to achieve quarterly revenue growth and cost reduction metrics.• Conducted company wide meetings to communicate quarterly project plans, company targets and monthly project updates to improve alignment and transparency across the entire business.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Led and supported multiple key strategic projects in parallel to enable Babylon to deliver on their revenue projections, satisfying both clients, Senior Leadership and Stakeholders. ​​• Facilitated client project updates and weekly app releases for one of Babylon’s major UK private client.• Managed the NHS Proactive Care workstreams, fostering collaboration across teams to devise solutions meeting QoF targets and unlocking additional funding.• Strategically planned and tracked project progress, utilising Gantt charts for effective monitoring and control across diverse US and UK projects.• Served as a crucial liaison between cross-departmental teams, adeptly managing risks, dependencies, and issues throughout each project's lifecycle.

• Meeting the requirements of stakeholders in the business by delivering on multiple projects simultaneously• Working with a range of cloud-based software (Xero, Quick Books, Twinfield)• Preparing monthly management accounts• Processing general ledger entires including: Accounts payable, accounts receivable, cash, prepayments, accruals etc. • Preparing regular payment runs• Performing internal controls including balance sheet reconciliations• Preparing quarterly VAT returns

• Creating and managing comprehensive work plans across multiple projects, taking into account the capabilities of the teams• Leading teams to meet tight reporting deadlines to deliver high quality audits• Working collaboratively with colleagues from different functions of the business• Drawing on client and industry wide data to create audit approaches• Managing client and team communications on a daily basis• Coaching team members• Performing retros• Evaluating the presentation and disclosure of statutory financial statements prepared under UK GAAP and IFRS• Reviewing going concern analyses by assessing future cash flows, balance sheet positions, performing liquidity assessments and performing sensitivity analyses• Testing internal controls such as monthly reconciliations, segregations of duty and underlying data changes• Testing balance sheet and profit and loss line items through the use of data sets, internal and external sources of information• Performing and documenting walkthroughs to understand the processes and controls of a business

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Accounting And Business/Management, First Class

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