Financial Specialist

☛ How have you successfully worked with this difficult type of person?

☛ What qualities do you find important in a co-worker?

☛ What were your expectations for the job and to what extent were they met?

☛ How do you define teamwork?

☛ What gets you out of bed in the morning?

☛ What two or three things are most important to you in your job?

☛ If we hire you for this job, what would we need to do to bring you up to speed?

☛ Have you been absent from work more than a few days in any previous position?

☛ What is the worst thing that ever happened to you?

☛ Give an example of a time you misjudged someone.

☛ What two or three things are most important to you in a job?

☛ Would you like to have your boss' job?

☛ What do you think is most important when dealing with your customer?

☛ Is detail important to you? Do you think details should be left to your assistant?

☛ Describe a time when you coordinated a challenging financial task, e.g. audits or tax collections.

☛ Give an example of a time when your attention to detail saved you from a making a mistake at work.

☛ How do you learn about global economic issues? What are the biggest challenges that companies of our industry will face in the next years?

☛ How would you describe your leadership style? How do you delegate tasks to your team members?

☛ Describe the budgeting process step-by-step.

☛ What financial and statistical analysis software have you used?

☛ What kinds of reports do you prepare or monitor on a regular basis? How do you use this information?

☛ What kind of financial model will help you build an annual forecasting report?

☛ What’s the use of the Weighted Average Cost Of Capital (WACC)? How will an increase in debt affect it?

☛ What is a good Internal Rate of Return (IRR) on an investment? What formula do you use to calculate it?

☛ What do (did) you not like?

☛ What days and hours are you available to work? Please be as specific as possible.

☛ What qualities do you like in a supervisor?

☛ When would you be available to start?

☛ Why haven't you obtained or accepted a job so far?

☛ Will you relocate? Does relocation bother you?

☛ What were the development steps on your last performance appraisal?

☛ What salary are you seeking?

☛ What are your long-term goals or Financial Specialist career plans?

☛ Give me an example that best describes your organizational skills.

☛ What motivates you to work as Financial Specialist?

☛ Who has impacted you most in your career and how?

☛ What would be your ideal working environment?

☛ How do you show an interest in what another person is saying?

☛ What do you do when priorities change quickly?

☛ Do you find your job exciting or boring?

☛ How well did your college experience prepare you for this Financial Specialist job?

☛ How do you make your decisions in general?

☛ What is the toughest group that you have had to get cooperation from?

☛ What type of management style do you thrive under?

☛ Do you have the qualities and skills necessary to Financial Specialist?

☛ What data would you collect to conduct a benchmark analysis?

☛ The CEO informs you they plan to make an investment (e.g. open a new store in a foreign country.) How would you begin advising them?

☛ What factors would you take into consideration before advising a company to take (or not take) a loan?

☛ What would you do if you found a mistake in a report you prepared but your manager hadn’t noticed?

☛ What metrics would you present to investors to describe the company’s financial health?

If an error is found it will be deducted from the individual gross pay the month that the discovery takes place.

My education has focused on not only learning the fundamentals, but also on the practical application of the information learned.

Making sure I enter correct information for each contract and submit before due date.

Havent done bookkeeping. Been responsible for reconciling payroll related accounts.

This falls into the category of behavioral interview techniques, a tactic useful in gauging your ability to think through a scenario like one that might be faced in a more senior finance role. Your response will show you if your approach is in alignment with that of the existing team, which will also indicate if you’re a good cultural fit for the company.

Accounting professionals, particularly those who have managed ledgers or worked as full-charge accountants for more than a couple of years, should be able to speculate on this scenario. A candidate with more formal training specific to auditing or fraud analysis will likely explain this thoroughly and be able to provide examples.

This is a starting point to explore your knowledge of ledgers. Your response could lead to further discussion of your skills related to the opening you are trying to apply for. The interviewer will expect your responses to reveal the extent to which you have thought through how accounts relate to lines of business and generally accepted accounting principles.

We never pay an employee through the payroll system, this creates a problem because there are tax implications and benefits that need to be included, before paying the take home salary .

Input everybody else and email the payroll timekeeper for the reports, meanwhile I make aware to the supervisor of this employees of the situation so they can get help to finish the reports.

The number one attribute for any position is confidentiality. Someone working with money should also be honest and trustworthy.