Role-specific questions
1. What is the difference between a deficiency, a significant deficiency and a material weakness?
How to answer: Define the concept in one sentence, walk through the steps in order, then add a real example from your work.
2. How do you test a manual control?
How to answer: Answer with a short framework (two or three steps), then back it with a specific example and the result.
3. How do you work with control owners who are slow to respond?
How to answer: Answer with a short framework (two or three steps), then back it with a specific example and the result.
4. What is a key control?
How to answer: Define the concept in one sentence, walk through the steps in order, then add a real example from your work.
Common questions for Audit & Assurance roles
Describe a significant finding and how you reported it.
What interviewers look for: Cover the issue, evidence, how you raised it, the client's response and the result.
How do you handle a client who is slow to provide information?
What interviewers look for: Show persistence, escalation through the right channels and professionalism.
How do you stay objective when you know the client well?
What interviewers look for: Mention independence, professional scepticism and documenting judgements.
Prepare a STAR story bank
- Situation: one or two sentences of context.
- Task: what you were responsible for.
- Action: what you did, step by step.
- Result: the outcome with a number, plus what you learned.
The Interview page in the app saves your own answers for each question and has a practice timer.