25 Auditor Interview Questions (with Answers)

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Have you ever had a documentation error occur during the auditing process? How did you handle it?

This is important because you'll run into documentation errors. Early in your career or even late, you'll miss something. It's human nature to overlook something, which is why most audits have several layers of auditors or reviewers to find these things. When you miss something or have a documentation error slip through that's found by another layer, it's humbling and sometimes discouraging. Use it as an important learning opportunity.

When you make a documentation error, you need to bounce back. Maybe you provided too much documentation and the external auditors are now digging deeper into a direction that you can't answer. You need to adjust and learn from the mistake.

Samantha's Answer #1

"Yes. When I was in my first year of auditing, I provided one document that should have been excluded. The external auditors ripped that apart and requested more documentation to follow up. My manager came to me and explained the error and used it as a learning moment for me. I realized that I had provide too much, which was the reason for all the last minute scrambling that we then had to endure."

Samantha's Answer #2

"I've never worked professionally as an auditor, but I learned in school while writing papers that if your asked for certain bullet points and you stray from that, it will affect your grade. Say you have to write a paper on King Tut but you stray to his wife and family and most of your paper is focused on them, your grade will reflect your distracted focus and not the "A" you were expecting."

Auditor Interview Questions

Have you ever had a documentation error occur during the auditing process? How did you handle it?

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Have you ever had a documentation error occur during the auditing process? How did you handle it?

Why do you want a career as an auditor?

By providing examples, convince me that you can adapt to a wide variety of people, situations, and environments.

How many times have you run an auditing team?

What platforms have you audited in the past?

Have you ever discovered fraud in an audit?

If you find a process that's time consuming and frustrating, what would you do?

Everyone has to bend or break rules sometimes. Give me an example when you had to that in auditing or accounting.

As a CPA, have you ever signed off on an audit and if so, what does that mean to you?

Give me an example of a time you pushed back when asked for additional documentation and why.

Have you ever been burned out during an audit? How did you regain your focus?

If you could change anything about being an auditor, what would it be?

Are you okay working longer hours certain times of the year or if a job had a deadline?

If you were given documentation that didn't make sense mathematically, what would your next steps be?

Tell me about a time when you sought guidance, from another coworker who was the same level as you?

Do you enjoy traveling?

Have you ever been offered a bribe? How did you react?

What do you enjoy most about being an auditor?

Have you ever faced a documentation overload during an audit? How did you handle it?

Have you ever been overloaded with work, i.e., multiple auditing contracts or clients at once, or just a large amount of auditing work all at once?

If you're working for multiple clients at one time, how do you monitor the amount of hours you spend on one compared to the other?

Have you ever had difficulty with a supervisor?

Describe a time when you had to work with a large team auditing team and how you handled it.

If you were an external auditor, what's the first thing you'd ask for when entering an audit?

Describe a difficult auditing project and how you overcame it.

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