Auditor Interview Questions
Auditors play an important role in managing the financial accuracy of organizations across all industries. Their main duties include reviewing and auditing financial records to ensure that businesses comply with tax regulations and laws. Interviewing for an auditing position often involves answering questions about your skills, as well as how you maintain accuracy.
Top Auditor Interview Questions & How to Answer
Here are three top auditor interview questions and how to answer them.
Question #1: What workflows do you have in place for the auditing process?
How to answer: Since auditing can be a tedious job that involves poring over detailed financial records, it's important for auditors to have established workflows. These workflows can prevent the auditor from making mistakes or overlooking crucial data. When answering this question, use simple terminology and describe your workflow from start to finish.
Question #2: Have you ever had to back up your audit findings with hard data?
How to answer: An auditor may encounter people within the organization who disagree with the results of an audit. If you face a question about your own experience with having to back up your findings, apply the STAR method (situation, task, action, result) to outline how you responded, what actions you took to present hard data or evidence, and the outcome.
Question #3: How does vouching apply in the auditing process?
How to answer: A question about a specific auditing term allows you to demonstrate your knowledge in the industry. You can use this question to showcase your understanding of the term and how you would apply vouching in your own process, such as by checking supporting documentation.
How do you deal with difficult people or seemingly unreasonable deadlines
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Ask your manager and have ranked priorities
How would my individual contributions be different than the previous employee.
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Every person brings a unique perspective to the job, I have a very diverse background which means that not only do I have a lot of experience in how to solve problems, I'm also experienced enough to know that there are several good solutions, in addition to one I might prefer. Less
what is risk assessment & experience in risk assessment? What is audit planing? What is costing and your experience with cost accounting? tell me about your self what do you know about dcaa?
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I just got my offer! About an hour before the phone call, I read your question, so I asked on your behalf! Travel to Atlanta will be 100% covered. They are paying for it upfront so they'll be no need to worry about reimbursement. We are staying at the Embassy Hotel, downtown. My start date is June 12. Less
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Cheer up! You've wanted 2+ months for the freeze to end! Your call is coming eventually. Patience :) Less
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I also got the 3rd email. No updates on hiring freeze but at least they are still showing the interest in us. The SF86 is horrendous 127 pages long. My goodness. Lol Less
What do you know about the DCAA, what do you know about job costing, what are pros and cons of working with a team, describe your strengths and weaknesses, tell us what you know about audit planning and risk assessment.
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Is the HR lady you spoke to Mary? thats the one i spoke to through email
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Odi - I have not received the email from the security office. HR told me they were mailing the fingerprint card and that email would come with instructions re security check. Will let you know when I get more information. Time seems to go so slow when you are waiting, waiting, waiting... Less
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Anonymous Congratulations on finally getting the firm offer. That is wonderful news and I am very happy for you. Seems like a lot of pain and effort only to decline once the firm offer finally comes through. Is your alternative a better deal for you looking at all of the factors? Think carefully and respond rather than react. Since mid November, I still only have a verbal TO. No idea when the FO/EOD will come. HR said her supervisor is telling her to work on other things, so my file is put aside for the time being. I don't know when progress will be made. I am told that I am in the system as "hired", and that therefore, Trump's anticipated hiring freeze should not affect me. The people that need to be concerned are those that are not in the system yet. That's about all I know. Hoping the information is reliable but who knows? Living in Limboland is not easy. Ugh! Less
If you could be a superhero, what power would you possess?
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Me: Anything but the ability to control lightning. Interviewer: Why so? Me: So that we can still claim lightning strikes as acts of God on insurance claims. Less
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Fly - of course. Then I would not be looking for a job.
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My power would be to turn stupid questions into relevant questions that have to do with the actual job. Less
What do you know about DCAA, what is risk assessment and your experience with risk assessment, cost accounting, and strength and weakness
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Any news?
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I interviewed on 2/17/17 and haven't heard anything yet.
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I interviewed on 21 Feb. Nothing yet. I emailed HR and they told me that we won't hear back anything until after hiring freeze is lifted, which is April. Less
What 3 qualities are important to have in this position?
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Smile understand of othere and work together
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Smile lm'a people person that love to help out. If l don't know the answer,l well get it. Less
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Precence of mind, Poilteness, Readybto take different challenges
If a defective product was coming off the line, how would you respond to the associates that had prepared it?
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I will get along with the manager or supervisor on duty and show them what I detected , so they can correct it. Less
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I will get along with the manager or supervisor on duty and show them what I detected , so they can correct it. Less
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I would cordially as the associates to put quality first because DHL model is "we get things right the first time." Less