1. How effective are your communication skills?
Mention front desk customer service as well as regular communication with the management (representations, proposals, etc.). For example, talk about your ability to sense requirements before they are said and how you've resolved complaints effectively.
2. Tell us what motivates you to do a good job?
What does motivate you will depend on your background and experience but try to make it relevant to what this position and company provides. Different motivators include challenge, increased responsibility, team involvement, interpersonal interaction, task complexity, learning opportunities and growth.
3. Please tell us what kind of salary do you need?
A loaded question. A nasty little game that you will probably lose if you answer first. So, do not answer it. Instead, say something like, That's a tough question. Can you tell me the range for this position? In most cases, the interviewer, taken off guard, will tell you. If not, say that it can depend on the details of the job. Then give a wide range.
4. What is your greatest strength as a Secretary Accountant?
Numerous answers are good, just stay positive. A few good examples: Your ability to prioritize, Your problem-solving skills, Your ability to work under pressure, Your ability to focus on projects, Your professional expertise, Your leadership skills, Your positive attitude
Answer in the affirmative and provide detail. Describe specifics of filing, record keeping, and calculating, verifying which of those require close contact with other departments. Show that you understand that typing requires maximum attention to detail.
6. Please tell me how you would be an asset to this organization?
You should be anxious for this question. It gives you a chance to highlight your best points as they relate to the position being discussed. Give a little advance thought to this relationship.
7. Please introduce yourself. What are your general qualifications for the job?
Review your employment experience. Try mentioning qualifications which are probably the most vital: numeric agility, ability to use computers and calculators, typing skills, ability to maintain files and records with impeccable attention to detail, etc. Mentioning people skills can also help, even if you think the job will be all backroom.
8. As a Secretary Accountant, highlight your strengths and your weaknesses?
Focus on three or four strengths that refer directly to the secretarial job requirements. Potential examples include organizing and planning, adaptability, information management, attention to detail, problem-solving, reliability, initiative , discretion, multi-tasking, prioritizing, good judgment and communication and interpersonal skills. Back up your answer with specific examples that demonstrates your strength in the work context.
It is best to refer to one or two true weaknesses and then to detail the steps you have taken to try to overcome the weakness.
9. What experience do you have as Secretary Accountant?
Speak about specifics that relate to the position you are applying for. If you do not have specific experience, get as close as you can.
10. What did you like best about your last secretary job and what did you enjoy least?
The interviewer is trying to assess your fit with the job so try and make your answers relevant to the requirements of the position. Appropriate general answers about what you enjoyed can include meeting new challenges, dealing with diverse people, learning new skills, meeting daily and weekly goals.
Your dislikes should not relate to the characteristics of the job you are interviewing for.
Also avoid dislikes that relate to working conditions such as overtime, office environment and pay. Criticism of your manager or colleagues raises red flags about your interpersonal skills. Keep it general and rather refer to the absence of something in your previous job such as insufficient challenge or not enough work to keep you busy.
11. What have you done to improve your knowledge in last year?
Try to include improvement activities that relate to the job. A wide variety of activities can be mentioned as positive self-improvement. Have some good ones handy to mention.
Secretaries today are increasingly taking on the roles of information and communication managers. Secretary interview questions will explore key qualities that include planning and organizing ability, oral and written communication skills, initiative, confidentiality, adaptability, integrity, reliability, accuracy and attention to detail.
Look at the key tasks of the position in the job posting and see which qualities would be essential for performing these tasks - for example if "scheduling" is a key activity then the secretary would need to be organized and able to plan and prioritize effectively.
13. Do you know what is Offset accounting?
Offset accounting is one that decreases the net amount of another account to create a net balance.
14. What made you apply for this Secretary Accountant job?
Use the information you gathered from your background research to prepare for this interview question, this way you will stand out from the other candidates for the secretarial vacancy. Find something specific about the company and position that attracts you.
Look at the company mission, vision and successes and at the responsibilities and activities involved in the job itself.
15. Define Partitioning in accounting?
It is a kind of groups made on the basis of same responses by a system.
16. Would you describe yourself as a responsible person and employee?
Talk about experience doing tasks which required responsibility, such as problem solving, research, and tracking documentation problems and discrepancies.
17. Define balancing in accounting?
Balancing means to equate both sides of the T-account i.e. the debit and credit sides of a T-account must be equal/balanced.
18. Are you computer literate?
Specify computer applications you are proficient with (Microsoft Office, Adobe, PowerPoint, Linux, Notepad), specific experience working in a computerized environment, and any projects you might have done using computers (presentations, etc.). Typing speed is also relevant.
19. How much mathematics knowledge is necessary or required in accounting?
Not much knowledge but basic mathematical background is required in accounting for operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
20. Do you have any questions for me regarding Secretary Accountant?
Always have some questions prepared. Questions prepared where you will be an asset to the organization are good. How soon will I be able to be productive? and What type of projects will I be able to assist on? Are examples.
21. Do you know What is retail banking?
It is a type of banking that involves a retail client. These clients are the normal people and not any organizational customers.
22. Can you please describe a typical work week for you?
Interviewers expect a candidate for employment to discuss what they do while they are working in detail. Before you answer, consider the position you are applying for and how your current or past positions relate to it. The more you can connect your past experience with the job opening, the more successful you will be at answering the questions.
It should be obvious that it's not a good idea talk about non-work related activities that you do on company time, but, I've had applicants tell me how they are often late because they have to drive a child to school or like to take a long lunch break to work at the gym.
Keep your answers focused on work and show the interviewer that you're organized ("The first thing I do on Monday morning is check my voicemail and email, then I prioritize my activities for the week.") and efficient.
23. Phone interview for accountant secretary:
• Could you please let me know more about yourself?
• Do you have any teamwork experience as a City secretary?
• What was your feeling if you had to work with a person who is worse than you?
• Tell me the key tasks of a City secretary?
• Tell me the thing you dislike in your last job?
• Tell me your weakness?
• Tell me your key strengths?
24. Define depreciation and its types?
By depreciation we mean that a value of an asset is decreasing as it is in use. It has two types such as "Straight Line Method" and "Written Down Value Method".
25. Accounting secretary interview questions:
► Tell me about yourself?
► Why did you leave your last job?
► What are your career goals for Accounting secretary?
► What is your greatest weakness?
► What kind of salary are you looking for Accounting secretary?
► Why do you think you would do well Accounting secretary?
► What motivates you to do your best on the Accounting secretary?
► How would you know you were successful on this Accounting secretary?
► Do you think you are overqualified for Accounting secretary?
► What have you learned from your past jobs that related to Accounting secretary?
► Where would you like to be in 3 years? 5 years?
► What made you choose to apply to Accounting secretary?
26. Technical skills based secretary accountant interview question:
• Tell me the position you want to work in when focusing on a task?
• Tell me the popular mistakes which a City secretary often makes and tell me the solution to deal with them?
• Do you think that this job is lower than your level?
• Describe the methods/techniques you often used when you worked as a City secretary? Tell me how you performed them?
• Which type of work would you prefer, individual or team?
• Tell me how did you do to apply ISO 9001 to your City secretary job?
• Tell me your questions if you have any?
27. Sample Secretary Accountant Interview Questions:
► Tell me about your previous work experience as accounting clerk.
► What were your primary responsibilities?
► How many people did you support?
► What were the most challenging aspects of your work?
► What type of software programs are you familiar with using?
► How did you maintain confidentiality when managing information?
► Tell me about a complex project you were tasked with completing under deadline.
► How did you add value to your role as accounting clerk?
► Tell me about your computer skills.
► Talk about your math skills.
► What have you done at your present/last company to increase revenues, reduce costs, or save time?
► What have you done recently to become a better accounting clerk?
► What makes you a great fit for this position?
► What type of schedule are you looking to work?
► Would you be available to work extra hours if needed?
28. Second secretary accountant interview question:
• Describe all the skills you have as a City secretary?
• What will you do to enrich the experience which you are lack of?
• Tell me the qualifications as well as skills you think necessary for a City secretary?
• Tell me some of your projects which you involved?
• Tell me the most difficult decision you have ever made?
• Are there any of your friends or relatives who are working as a City secretary in this company?
• Tell me your expected salary and promotions if you are offered this position?
29. In your current or former position, what were your long and short term goals?
My long term goals were to attain the experience in the work field and create strong network and my short term goals were get my things work done.
We know that all types of transactions need to be documented. The trade bills are the documents, generated against each transaction.
31. Define Scrap value in accounting?
It is the residual value of an asset. The residual value is the value that any asset holds after its estimated life time.
32. Define the term material facts in accounting?
Material facts are the bills or any document that becomes the base of every account book. It means that all those documents, on which account book is prepared, are called material facts.
33. Do you know what is fair value accounting?
As per fair value accounting, a company has to show the value of all of its assets in terms of price on balance sheet on which that asset can be sold.
34. Define dual aspect term in accounting?
As the name implies, the dual aspect concept states that every transaction has two sides. For example, when you buy something, you give the cash and get the thing. Similarly, when you sale something, you lose the thing and gets the money. So this getting and losing is basically two aspects of every transaction.
35. Define overhead in terms of accounting?
It is the indirect expenditure of a company such as salaries, rent dues etc.
