"As a Senior Accountant, I've spent the past two years as a General Ledger Accountant, where I'm responsible for a posting 50% of all monthly journal entries for a specific profit center. One of the more difficult Journal Entries is the payroll entry. This includes the actual and accrued payroll entry. Since the payroll system isn't linked to the company's current ERP system, it's done and generated in a separate system. Each entry is about 54 line items and it can't be downloaded and then uploaded into the General Ledger due to system limitations, so it's all manually entered. It's very time consuming and most importantly, it's necessary to ensure the accrued payroll entry is correct based on the number of payroll working days left in the month. If this entry is off, then the following month's entry will be inaccurate."

Explain your month-end experience and elaborate on all responsibilities, especially if there's a complex journal entry. The point of this question is to ensure that your responsibility is more than typing in debit and credit into the system and that you have additional responsibilities and understand the GL impact.

Some companies don't have month-end close, or it's quarterly, or they only have end year prepared by a CPA firm. If this is the case, explain your role in preparing and maintaining many accounts and reconciliations.

If you're recently out of school and new in the field, use an example from a class or project.

"I've been responsible for opening and closing the ledgers for input by multiple departments. I'd get approval from the executive director of finance to open ledgers after the month had ended and closed them after inputting edits."