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"As an internal auditor, it's your job to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of a company's financial and operational activities. Interviewers are looking for analytical individuals that can provide objective assessments of risk management, control, and governance processes. Expect interviewers to put your decision making skills to the test with situational questions involving different risk management issues. Employers prefer candidates with a finance or accounting background who have an understanding of how businesses run, so be ready to discuss your technical business knowledge."

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Here are the short answer questions I was told to answer at the beginning of my interview: 1. You are testing the balance of a liability account and you discover that a journal entry is not supported. How would you write this audit finding? 2. Bob is a controller and has the ability to do the following: Create/modify vendors, approve invoices, create and approve journal entries. What are the segregation of duties issues here? 3. How would you test revenue was recorded in the correct period? What is this type of test called? Questions I was asked from the random list of accounting concepts the manager had on her desk: 1. What is the difference between a process and a control? 2. What is the journal entry for an insurance payment? 3. What are some testing procedures you would use to test for unrecorded liabilities?
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Internal Auditor

Interviewed at Lennar

3.4★
Sep 25, 2013

Here are the short answer questions I was told to answer at the beginning of my interview: 1. You are testing the balance of a liability account and you discover that a journal entry is not supported. How would you write this audit finding? 2. Bob is a controller and has the ability to do the following: Create/modify vendors, approve invoices, create and approve journal entries. What are the segregation of duties issues here? 3. How would you test revenue was recorded in the correct period? What is this type of test called? Questions I was asked from the random list of accounting concepts the manager had on her desk: 1. What is the difference between a process and a control? 2. What is the journal entry for an insurance payment? 3. What are some testing procedures you would use to test for unrecorded liabilities?

There was only one interview question and the conversation quickly spiraled down. I have never had an interview experience like this - even with companies that weren't very interested, the discussion was at least pleasant. This seemed like an attack. For an organization coming off of significant issues around internal controls over financial reporting I was expecting a little less arrogance - obviously, its not the organization's fault that the interviewers had issues.
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Senior Internal Auditor

Interviewed at Pilgrim's

3.6★
Aug 6, 2015

There was only one interview question and the conversation quickly spiraled down. I have never had an interview experience like this - even with companies that weren't very interested, the discussion was at least pleasant. This seemed like an attack. For an organization coming off of significant issues around internal controls over financial reporting I was expecting a little less arrogance - obviously, its not the organization's fault that the interviewers had issues.

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