Internal Audit Intern

Tell me about a time you had to be very detailed and accurate in your work.

What they are checking: Precision and care, which audit work depends on.

Tell me about a time you found a mistake that someone else made. How did you bring it up?

What they are checking: Whether they can raise issues factually and respectfully, a key part of audit communication.

What do you hope to learn about audit or accounting from this internship?

What they are checking: Whether their goals connect to a real career interest, like accounting, audit or risk.

You're testing a sample of loan files and find one missing a required signature. What do you do?

What they are checking: Whether they document exceptions carefully and bring them to their supervisor rather than deciding importance alone.

How would you ask an employee for documents when they seem annoyed by the audit?

What they are checking: Tact and professionalism when people are defensive about being reviewed.

How would you keep information you see during an audit confidential?

What they are checking: Discretion with sensitive member and employee information that auditors routinely see.

In your own words, what is internal audit for at a credit union?

What they are checking: Whether they see audit as testing controls and protecting members and the organization, not as catching people.

What is an internal control? Give me an example from everyday banking.

What they are checking: Basic grasp of controls like dual approval, reconciliations or access limits.

How do you document your work so someone else could follow exactly what you tested?

What they are checking: Clear workpaper habits, since audit conclusions must be supported by evidence.

What Excel skills do you have, like pivot tables, lookups or filtering?

What they are checking: Data skills used to sample, test and analyze large sets of transactions.