Practice
Tell me about a time you found an error in a financial report or reconciliation.
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During a month-end reconciliation in 2023 I found that our bank balance and the ledger differed by $8,400. I traced it to a supplier payment entered twice under two invoice numbers. I reversed the duplicate, informed my manager and recovered the money from the supplier within two weeks. Then I added a control: the payment system now flags matching amounts to the same supplier within 30 days. After I added that control, duplicate payments fell to zero over the next six months.