Financial Specialist Question:

☛ Describe to me any payroll process that you have developed or revised?
☛ If an employee called in with a payroll complaint, how would you handle it?
☛ What have you done to improve your verbal communication skills?
☛ What is the largest payroll you have been in charge of?
☛ Give me examples of the payroll reports you have prepared.
☛ How do you keep updated on all the payroll rules and techniques?
☛ How does higher management benefit from payroll reports?
☛ Why are you interested in this position?
☛ We have 9 major union contracts, each with unique special pay items. How will you ensure that everything is paid correctly and on time?
☛ What is a fiscal year?
☛ What salary are you seeking?
☛ Can you explain when you would want to pay an employee through accounts payable rather than payroll?
☛ Have you had responsibility for state and federal tax payments?
☛ What are the payroll inputs?
☛ What is a general ledger?
☛ If you have done bookkeeping in the past for small businesses, tell me about your experience doing that.
☛ What experience do you have implementing a new payroll system?
☛ Describe to me your familiarity with the administration of 403b or 457 plans?
☛ How would you familiarize yourself with our payroll system?
☛ Tell me about the payroll forecasting you have been responsible for.
☛ Describe a typical payroll day from your past experiences.
☛ Do you plan to open up your own accounting or payroll firm?
☛ Define a bad employee.
☛ Each of our buildings has a designated payroll timekeeper that reports biweekly. Two reports are late. How do you approach this?
☛ Discuss your experience with payroll.
☛ There are times when we are placed under extreme pressure on the job. Tell about a time when you were under such pressure and how you handled it.
☛ What cost-cutting measure have you been in charge of implementing?
☛ Can you describe the use of forms W2, W4, and 941?
☛ What are the most important attributes a person should have for this position?
☛ What sorts of things have you done to become better qualified for your career?
☛ How did you get started in payroll?
☛ What is retro pay?
☛ What are the most important attributes a person should have for this position?
☛ What are your future plans with the company?
☛ Describe to me a difficult situation at work and how you diffused it.
☛ What information do you require before you approve payroll?
☛ We spend considerable time editing our time sheets to ensure no errors. How do you approach finding an error?
☛ What courses did you like the best in your preparation in accounting and payroll?
☛ Why are you interested in this position?