CRAZY questions(s) lol, pls advise.

Somehow I ended up with a corporate accounting interview for a health insurance company this week. The role is regulatory focused.

While I’m a registered CPA, I’ve never worked a day in accounting, as my experience is in corporate strategy. I only applied because it is fully remote. I have NO CLUE how I got an interview.

QUESTIONS 🙋‍♂️

1. What is WLB for such jobs? I want something easy.
2. Could I learn on the job or would lack of experience kill me?

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1. Easy and great WLB
2. Could learn on the job

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What level would you be coming in at? How do you feel your debit/ credit skills are? Are you rusty at financial statements?

This is accounting at the introductory level. What kind of management level requires this low accounting knowledge?

This is a non-issue. CPA is more than enougn to handle the job technicality wise, you just need experience leading meetings and communicate things with senior leadership, which hopefully you already have working in strategy.

How did you get your CPA without any accounting experience? What state is at least 1 YOE not a requirement in?

Illinois and a registered, but but not licensed. Way back in the day.

 Well good for you, but you must have some accounting experience since you're a CPA. Based on my experience, corporate strategy is a hell of a lot more fulfilling than regulatory compliance.. if you have any aspirations to be a CFO etc. the corporate strategy experience is a winner

Regulatory focused. I hope you don’t mean STAT accounting and BA schedule reporting?

yeah fwiw, even if you HAD traditional accounting experience, insurance statutory accounting is a notably different beast than gaap too.

Send us a copy of your resume we’re trying to see something. Hahaha

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