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Guys, I need some advice. I am studying acca and have only 3 exams remaining but only 6 month relevant work experience as Finance Officer in small private company and 1 year experience as part time trainee accountant in accountancy practice.
I recently (3 months ago) got a job with local council as arrears/revenue assistant witch does not have too much to do with accountancy.I got chosen for interview for Finance Officer post and have an interview on Thur 19th Dec.
I know post mainly involves monitoring budgets but thats all.Is there anyone who could give me some hints and tips? What should I prepare for? Any help would be appreciated since very fancy this job!
Go on its website and familiarise yourself with its ‘Vision’, and anything relating to the actual dept you’ll be working in if it isn’t a central finance dept. You’ll probably be able to read its latest annual report on there as well, so have a good read at that to familiarise yourself with what it is spending its budgets on and in particular, the section on the challenges it faces over the next year or so. That’ll give you a good grounding on where it’s at and what it needs to do because it’s likely that they’ll ask you some general questions to glean what knowledge you have of it rather than all questions based on what you can do in a financial context.
Along with budget monitoring, you’ll likely be involved in preparation of month-end management accounts – prepayment/accrual/miscode journals, producing reports etc which you’ve probably been involved in already by the sounds of it.
Best of luck for Thursday!
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