Welcoming questions
- Can you walk us through your accounting career so far and the point where you moved from preparing work to reviewing it?
- What attracted you to a senior accountant role at this stage of your career?
Role-specific / technical competencies
- Walk us through how you run a month-end close from start to sign-off. What does your close checklist look like?
- Describe a technical accounting question you had to research recently. How did you reach and document your conclusion?
- How do you approach reviewing journal entries and reconciliations prepared by junior accountants? What do you check first?
- Tell us about your experience supporting an external audit. How do you manage the request list and keep the audit on schedule?
- Which ERP or accounting systems have you worked in, and what have you done to automate or shorten the close?
Behavioural & culture fit
- Describe a time you found a material error in work that had already been reviewed or reported. What did you do?
- Tell us about a junior accountant you coached. How did you help them improve, and what changed?
- How do you handle pushback from a manager or budget owner who disagrees with an accounting treatment you applied?
Problem-solving / case
- It is day three of close and a bank reconciliation is off by a five-figure amount with no obvious cause. Walk us through your investigation step by step.
- The auditors challenge your revenue recognition on a new contract type two weeks before sign-off. How do you respond and what do you prepare?
- Your close currently takes ten business days and the CFO wants it done in five. Where would you look first, and what would you change in the first quarter?
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