Interview Questions

Company Role & Overview

We are currently recruiting for a full-time, permanent Accounts and Audit Senior role in a top 100 accountancy firm who are recognised as delivering high standard of ACCA Platinum Training. The role is in East London and will commence immediately, the company are actively looking for motivated and business minded candidates.

Main Responsibilities

• Senior accounting responsibilities will include checking and completing statutory accounts for Companies House and HMRC purposes, interacting with clients, correcting client documents, and financial evaluations.
• Audit responsibilities will require collaborating with a team and clients to oversee the successfulness of the audit, recognise any concerns and report back to the company’s audit managers, acknowledge client requirements and communicate improvements of audit back to managers, and train junior members of the audit team.
• Some of the audit responsibilities may require travelling to the client’s head offices.

Important Requirements (Essential)

• 3+ years PQE
• ACA/ICAS Qualified or equivalent
• Degree level or CTS
• Experience in overseeing and training junior members of a team
• Knowledge of accountancy firms and their regulations
• Understanding of present economic trends

Requirements (Desired)

• A part of ACCA or ICAEW
• Experience with SORP charity

Company & Role Overview

We are currently recruiting for a permanent Digital Marketing Officer at a public health organisation, a successful candidate will be working within a marketing and communications department. The main responsibilities of this role will include daily supervision of the company’s digital channels, managing the company campaigns, social media, website, and emails.

Main Responsibilities

• Digital channels
• Marketing activities and campaigns
• Evaluation and monitoring

Important Requirements

• High level of written and verbal communication
• Experienced in using google analytics
• Excellent knowledge of SEO
• Background of using Microsoft Office including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and Teams.
• Experience of developing digital content

Company & Role Overview

The role available is an Interim HR Coordinator (6 months fixed term contract) at a charity, located in Blackburn that will involve a mixture of hybrid working. A suitable candidate will be able to adapt, independent worker, and pay attention to detail who can find an array of suitable candidates for the company. The company offers a range of perks including a competitive salary and pension scheme, discounted shopping, and training for career progression.

Main Responsibilities              

• Conducting the HR process successfully from start to finish
• Assisting company’s management team on absentees, penalisation, complaints, and maternity leave
• Supporting the company’s Area HR Manager with case work
• Assisting the Payroll team with handling fluctuations in the area.

Important Requirements

• Experienced in first line HR or in another HR sector
• Retain a CIPD Level 3 or more (or in progress)
• Excellent communication internally
• Be able to influence the company’s management department by delivering excellent HR guidance
• Capable of completing safeguarding assessments

Role & Company Overview

The Graduate Project (TGP Recruitment) is a specialist provider of permanent and contract staff operating in over six sectors and has grown into one of the UK’s leading graduate recruitment companies. The central London (Aldgate) based consultancy has been established since 2013 and is still growing.

Through delivering a world leading service achieved by constant innovation and forward thinking, The Graduate Project has supported educated professionals to gain employment within private and public organisations.

The Graduate Project believe that helping high calibre candidates prepare for their future career is fundamental to the development of the business landscape. We understand the benefits that could be brought to clients through introducing graduates, sharing knowledge and developing a new generation of skilled talent.

That’s why The Graduate Project has helped hundreds of candidates from school leavers, to entry-level undergraduates, experienced graduates and seasoned professionals find their ideal role. We have fully established ourselves as a leading recruitment consultancy, meeting over a thousand graduates face to face every year.
 

Main Responsibilities

As part of the PR Executive role, you’ll have responsibility from the outset in operational roles and will gain hands-on experience and a broad array of skills. Your responsibilities will include:

• Collating press clippings from Press Releases (PRs)
• Managing and updating the media distribution list ensuring current contacts are correct
• Gathering and comparing results of digital advertising campaigns (cost, click throughs, run time)
• Social Media analysis and reporting for campaigns
• Some proof-reading / fact checking PRs/articles as an extra pair of eyes
• Supporting Global Marketing Events where relevant
• Attending Global Marketing events where relevant

Important Requirements (Essential)

We are keen to speak to people about this PR Executive opportunity with the following skills and experience:

• A degree graduate in a relevant subject
• Excellent writing and communication skills
• Some knowledge of social media platforms
• A passion for writing
• Able to travel, when necessary (COVID restrictions dependent)
• Passionate about personal learning and development

In return, you will receive a starting base salary of £21,000 - 25,000pa plus benefits

• Personal development, training and onboarding programmes
• Private medical
• Pension scheme (employer contribution)
• Life assurance

Company & Role Overview

We are recruiting for a Junior Account Manager position with a chemical company, initial training will be provided to the successful candidate by the company. The role will involve supporting sales opportunities, managing accounts, and exceeding company targets. Following this, the Junior Account Manager role will progress onto a Business Manager role at the company.

Main Responsibilities

• Introducing positive opportunities to the company
• Gaining approval and developing the potential deals
• Communicating with external parties to agree on the conditions of deals
• Assist company management
• Supporting the logistics team have the means to complete the deal
• Observing progress of the company to be managed by logistics team
• Observing the final outcome deal making including quantifiable data and qualitative results such as consumer experience
• Examining capital usage which can include but is not limited to supply, payments, debtors, cash, and creditors

Important Requirements (Essential)

• Able to travel within the UK and EU to liaise with clients
• Strong personality including an excellent work ethic
• Strong communication written and verbal skills

• Previous experience in a telesales or customer service role (desired)
• Graduate or A-level qualifications in relevant subjects (desired)

Salary £25,000 + £2,000 bonus

Company & Role Overview

We are recruiting for a Product Design Lead position in the eCommerce industry, the role will require a successful candidate to lead a team to support the overall growth of the company. A desirable candidate will have the ability to lead a team successfully and pushing new user research methods from the stages of development into existence. Following development, the new methods will require continuous analysis regarding their effectiveness with customers.

Main Responsibilities

• Main responsibilities will include leading and developing a team to successful outcomes
• Experience of undertaking an authoritative role is essential
• Customer research and product assessment from idea to use
• Producing wireframes, prototypes and user flows surrounding customer needs
• Utilising data in combination with consumer research to establish customer focused products
• Capable of analysing consumer research to enhance current projects
• Be able to critically think to find new and improved ways applying design thinking to respond to UX concerns
• Produce and execute style guide and guarantee UX/Design and managing design sprints

Important Requirements (Essential)

• A successful candidate must be knowledgeable with agile and design sprints
• 7-10 years of experience with UX/Product Design including consumer research
• 3 years of experience as a design manager
• Must have a portfolio that includes Product Design/UX work from a number of previous employments or projects

Requirements (Desirable)

• Experience in the Ecommerce industry  
• Expertise in technical areas including creating prototypes, Javascript, HTML, and CSS
• Knowledgeable with Design computer software such as Sketch and InVision
• A relevant degree or qualification

Company & Role Overview

We are currently recruiting for a well-established e-Commerce company who are looking for a Senior Product Manager to support the team. This is a fantastic opportunity for the successful candidate to help drive the business forward. You will be involved in 3rd party integrations across our varied range of sectors to help build out the booking experience.

Main Responsibilities

• A senior project manager’s role involves the maintenance of the company’s products from beginning to dispatch within a team to help the growth of the company
• Utilise data focused methods to distinguish and highlight the plan and build-up of the product area, using several data sources and customer insight (qualitative and quantitative)
• Leading areas of development including product improvement and enhancing customer experience
• Leading product plans from beginning to end including using research and discovery, improvement of consumer flows, wireframes and stories
• Communicating with various other departments within the company to develop customer solutions

Requirements

• 3-5 years experience within a web-based product management organisation
• 2-3 years of experience in management of product managers and products analysts
• Previous experience in an Ecommerce position preferably from a tourism company
• Experience with web analytics
• Proactive, adaptable personality who pays attention to detail
• The individual must have a high-level of oral, written, and spoken skills

Company & Role Overview

The role is a permanent full stack developer position with a leading company in the e-Commerce industry. The company’s fundamental principles surround the best experience for the customer, provider, team, and retail associates.

Main Responsibilities

• Execution of Top Ecommerce Market Trend
• Examining technological methodology to guarantee business requirements are exceeded and are scalable for upcoming merchandise releases for the company.
• Network gateways developments
• Liaising with company analysts and management to advise application solutions in the future
• Scripting conceptual design papers and in-depth specifications for extensive and complex projects
• Design integration with several of the company’s partners

Important Requirements (Essential)

• A successful candidate will have a minimum of 3 years of experience with online software development including the use of .NET
• Excellent customer service
• Team worker
• The individual must be organised and able to prioritise tasks based on their importance
• Technical skills in NET MVC, Web API, C#, .NET Core, NHibernate, Entity Framework, JQuery
• Experience with Azure DevOps, Git, ASP.NET Web Forms
• Experience of writing enquiries on the SQL Server

Requirements (Desired)

• Previous employment within an e-Commerce development team for a renowned web business

Company & Role Overview

This role is a permanent Cloud Bookkeeper position in which a successful candidate will be dedicated to working in an office in aid of the outsourced team and the cloud team manager. The position features full-time office hours, 35 hours per week from 8:30AM – 5:30PM.

Main responsibilities

• Lead regular monthly and weekly reports to remain up to date with Teams task development on VAT returns / EC Sales / Bookkeeping and ensure all targets are met.
• Communicate with PA’s when Year-end accounts are prepared to be booked in
• Respond to Team enquiries and communicate directly with all clients
• Ensure all deadlines are met and work prepared appropriately
• Guarantee all bookkeeping tasks are completed effectively by following the Efficiency Checklist and changing any required advancements
• Review bookkeeping work to ensure TB is accurate
• Verify all bookkeeping postings to check all postings are completely accurate
• Deal with bookkeeping jobs if necessary throughout busy periods for the company

Important Requirements (Essential)

• A successful candidate will have a high-level of knowledge of using Xero, alternatively the candidate can be certified on Xero. An excellent level of bookkeeping experience and prior knowledge of receipt bank is advised.
• ACCA/AAT Qualified or Qualified by experience
• Practice experience
• Great insight into accountancy and tax principles