What are some interview questions for a MANAGER Operations and Finance?
Asked by Taramasu2U
Include suggested answer if possible, please. QUALIFICATIONS: (1) min. Bachelor in Business or Public Admin., (2) 5 yrs supervisory experience, (3) deal with range of stakeholders ORGANIZATION: publicly funded, not-for-profit Responsibilities include: FINANCIAL-prep. financial info for board, prep. annual budget & ops plan, review claims, participate in audits OPERATIONS-establish customer service standards, special projects (e.g., corp structure, activity reports, set up financial reporting systems), facilities, security, & IS planning, policies and procedures, personnel (e.g., perf. reviews, recruit, supervise admin and bookkeeping staff, etc.) I'm hoping for skill-specific questions (operations and finance). I have all sorts of other resources for the standard interview questions (e.g., how do you handle stress).

Best Answer:
I'm currently the VP of Operations and IT for a non-traditional commercial lending bank. I don't really remember what questions they asked me - but it's important when you're getting someone to do this particular job (operations manager) that they can deal effectively with people (maybe you ask what was the largest group of people they previously managed, or if their current employees were to describe them with 3 words what would those 3 words be), that they're competent with the systems that you're using, or if you're using something special (like you've written your own software) that they're able to pick up on that quickly, and that they understand how to analyze financial data, both for budgeting purposes (i.e. reporting to the board of directors) and for management purposes (i.e. budgeting for employee attrition as well as future growth).

I'm not one with all the answers, but I did some looking and there are lots of books and articles on interviews. Here is one you can check out. Hope it helps.
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