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Financial analyst

Covers forecasting, variance analysis, investment cases, cash and reporting to leaders. Suits mid-level and senior analysts in planning or business finance. Follow-ups push for the drivers behind a number, the checks behind a model and the decision the analysis supported.

Suits: Financial analyst, FP&A analyst, Business finance analyst, Senior financial analyst

Questions
7 of 17
Length
35 min
Format
Voice or typed
Levels
Mid to Senior
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Example

  1. Interviewer: Tell me about a time you changed someone's mind at work. How did you go about it?

  2. Candidate: Our team wanted to rebuild the billing page from scratch, and I thought it was the wrong call, so we put together a plan to…

  3. Follow-up

    Interviewer: You said "we". What did you say yourself, and what finally changed their mind?

  4. Scored on

    • Analysis and modelling30%
    • Commercial judgement25%
    • Rigour and control20%
    • Communicating numbers25%

    Score, reasons and recording. Your team decides.

An example exchange. This interview's own questions open when you use it.

What it listens for, and how much each part counts.

Every answer is scored against this guide, with the reasoning written beside the score. You get the recording or the written answers too, and your team makes the call.

  • Analysis and modelling30%
    Builds sound, driver-based models and analysis that tie out.
  • Commercial judgement25%
    Links numbers to how the business makes money and what to decide.
  • Rigour and control20%
    Checks work, owns errors and keeps assumptions documented.
  • Communicating numbers25%
    Makes findings clear and usable for non-finance leaders.

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