Karine Schaulund
London
Summary
An ACCA member with a MSc in Finance and Accounting. Obtained work experience within different sectors of finance: Management Accountant, Financial Accountant, Commercial Finance Analyst and Accounts Receivable.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
4032
4032
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Finance Reporting Analyst
Permasteelisa (UK) Ltd
London
01.2025 - Current
- Conducted in-depth monitoring and analysis of cost centre variances against budgets and forecasts.
- Produced P&L analysis; including month end dashboards for cost centre analysis.
- Detailed monitoring and explanations of variances to budgets and forecasts.
- Submitting headcount and order intake reporting monthly to Group.
- Coordinating UK project budgets and forecasts and provide explanations for variances between actual and budgeted costs.
- Submitted 13 week rolling Cashflow Forecast for UK projects by partnering with the brand Finance Directors and the UK Commercial team.
- Liaised with accounting shared service centre colleagues to ensure accuracy of data input and timely cost reporting.
- Prepared and reconciled payroll report monthly for submission.
- Locate ways to make reporting processes and reconciliations more efficient by automatizing files by using formulas links.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure accuracy in financial forecasting and budgeting.
Management Accountant/ Finance business partner
Arriva Rail London
London
09.2021 - 12.2025
- Reported numbers for the following directorates: Control, IT, Safety, Concession Management, Business Strategy, Facilities, Central Overheads/Network Rail.
- Responsible for the budgeting and forecasting for directorates for £90m.
- Investigated and provided explanation for variances between actual costs and budgeted costs.
- Established business partnerships with 5 key stakeholders to review costs and budget and present period-end numbers.
- Conducted and presented budget numbers to top management including WALKS and analysis explaining variances against prior year actuals and budget.
- Reviewed and approved purchase orders on Navision/Business Central based on budget expectations.
- Responsible for uploading the total budgeted number for 20 directorates and reconciling the uploaded number to total business plan.
- Prepared and reconciled accrual analysis and provision report used for balance sheet review.
- Consolidated period-end numbers to create an ‘Exec’ Report, which split the P&L into the 20 directorates, to provide better analysis to be viewed by the Executives.
- Trained new members of the team in period-end processes conducting periodic reports to drive consistency in reporting.
- Located ways to make reporting processes more efficient by automatizing files by using formulas and prevent manual errors.
- Supported audit process by preparing reports and reconciliations for accruals and prepayment to submit to external auditors.
- Submitted the financial monthly and annual reports required by Office National Statistics.
Financial Accountant
A+E Networks UKJV Ltd
London
08.2019 - 11.2020
- Reported Month end numbers for overheads: IT, facilities, legal fees, insurance, and prepared cost analysis reports for variances for areas mentioned.
- Prepared forecast and budgeting for Overheads, which included communicating with relevant business partners to determine numbers for budgets and forecast.
- Collected and reviewed balance sheet reconciliations from all Finance team members related to their area.
- Updated and conducted balance sheet reconciliations every month.
- Assisted with preparation of annual statutory accounts and external audit including responding to audit queries.
- Reviewed and checked that all revenue transactions and tax codes on database system ‘Medea’ reconciled with transactions on SAP.
- Called out any transactions that were not included in interface between Medea and SAP and presented it to Finance team and FD.
- Prepared PAYE Settlement Agreement report.
- Prepared backup for south Africa VAT report to South African office.
Commercial Finance Analyst
A+E Networks UKJV Ltd
London
09.2017 - 08.2019
- Prepared and presented revenue reports to management broken down by revenue segments, channels, countries and 10 regions.
- Provided commentaries on variances against budget and latest forecast.
- Listed the top 20 affiliate accounts that generate most revenue and provided commentaries that explained main drivers of variance against budget including breakdown of performance driven and foreign exchange driven variance.
- Liaised the with legal team to provide annual revenue numbers to The Office of Communications: Ofcom, broken down by licenses based on Ofcom's requirements.
- Reviewed and provided subscriber and household reports for affiliate to management of commercial and research team.
- Participated in preparing budget and forecast for revenue.
- Worked closely with Accounts Receivable to track that invoices are being billed regularly and per contracted fees.
- Attending regular meetings with sales and billing team to query any outstanding or incorrect billing.
- Worked with Pan-regional advertising sales team to track and monitor that all deals on sales tracker were invoiced.
Accounts Receivable Analyst (Temp)
A&E Networks UKJV Ltd
London
06.2017 - 08.2017
- Entered incoming payments for 5 currencies onto the data base system: Medea and allocated against relevant invoices.
- Prepared cash matching reports for Month-end to ensure that information on Medea is up to date and reconciled with the bank statement.
- Arranged conference call meetings to discuss outstanding debt with agents responsible for clients from the following regions: Scandinavia, The Baltic States, Czech Republic, Belgium, Netherlands and Hungary.
- Kept record of agents' comments and conference call comments and investigated finance queries from agents.
Credit Controller (sole)
Armit Wines LTD
London
09.2014 - 01.2016
- Responsible for Accounts Receivable; entered payments on customers' accounts; GBP and Hong Kong dollars, on company's database system: Microsoft Navision.
- Allocated incoming payments against invoices, reconciled customer accounts and bank statement.
- Investigated and evaluated credit worthiness of new and potential customers.
- Conducted credit checks by researching and using software: DataCash.
- Determined and set up customers' payment terms and credit limits on Microsoft Navision.
- Responsible for checking that company's clients adhered to agreed payments terms by monitoring timely collection of outstanding debt.
- Released approved orders customers placed on daily basis before cut-off times after completing necessary credit checks.
- Negotiated and determined payment plans with customers.
- Participated in a collection scheme over a period of 2 months, which resulted in collecting around £5 Million aging debt.
- Supervised AR temps about credit control functions and database systems.
Despatch Controller
Armit Wines LTD
London
06.2013 - 08.2014
- Responsible for Instructing around 60 customers' orders by different delivery deadlines based on postcode every day.
- Maximized revenue by reviewing the full order report before close of Month-End to ensure that all successful orders are confirmed as delivered, which automatically invoices the orders.
- Assisted the sales team in placing orders on system correctly to secure delivery.
- Assisted top management ensuring smooth transition implementing new system; from Maginus Software to Microsoft Navision.
Translator (Temp)
International SOS
London
04.2013 - 05.2013
- Translated and wrote summaries of legal business documents from Norwegian to English.
Education
Master of Science - Finance and Accounting
University of Westminster
London10.2017
Bachelor of Arts (Hons) - International Business
Regent's University
London2013
Skills
- Microsoft Excel: Pivot table, SUMIFS, V-lookup INDEX/MATCH
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (Navision)
- Software, SAP Software Solutions, SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) and SAP Concur
- JDE Software (now Oracle)
Timeline
Finance Reporting Analyst
Permasteelisa (UK) Ltd
01.2025 - Current
Management Accountant/ Finance business partner
Arriva Rail London
09.2021 - 12.2025
Financial Accountant
A+E Networks UKJV Ltd
08.2019 - 11.2020
Commercial Finance Analyst
A+E Networks UKJV Ltd
09.2017 - 08.2019
Accounts Receivable Analyst (Temp)
A&E Networks UKJV Ltd
06.2017 - 08.2017
Credit Controller (sole)
Armit Wines LTD
09.2014 - 01.2016
Despatch Controller
Armit Wines LTD
06.2013 - 08.2014
Translator (Temp)
International SOS
04.2013 - 05.2013
Master of Science - Finance and Accounting
University of Westminster
Bachelor of Arts (Hons) - International Business
Regent's University