Interviews can be intimidating, but selling your skills within the financial sector is an entirely different challenge. Whether you are trying to break into the Big Four, impress in a fast-paced City firm or make a difference in the public sector, hiring practices for entry-level, part-qualified and newly-qualified finance and accountancy roles go beyond the usual talk-me-through-your-resume routine.

On top of traditional competency-based scenarios, you are likely to be faced with probing numerical reasoning tests, questions that test your technical and theoretical knowledge and left-field, figures-based brainteasers to stretch your analytical skills.