KPMG Analyste interview questions

Manager Interview 1. Why risk consulting and nor corporate finance and investment banking? 2. Although it’s a while ago, you got an F in Quantitative Techniques why? FRM involves a lot of Quants? 3. Tell me about a time when you had to come up with an innovative idea? 4. How good is your Excel VBA? 5. Tell me about yourself? 6. Where do you see yourself in 10 years? 7. Why did you do your MSc in Investment and Finance and not Risk? 8. I can’t see your MSc Certificate attached here? 9. Have you any Questions for me: i.) What is it like working in KPMG?

Partner Interview 1. Where do you work and what do you do? 2. Why are you leaving there? Two small paper questions: I. A fair value of the ticket is $1. There are a million tickets and there are payoffs of $1million. If the price of the strike of the call option is $5. What is the price of the option? II. If there are 2 A2 engines one had a 1/1000000 chance of failure and both engines are independent of each other, what is the probability that the plane would crash? 3. Do you play sports? 4. Do you play music, did you train, how long and why did you stop? 5. Do you know about credit, market, operational and liquidity risk? 6. Discuss a topic about derivatives? 7. How do you price a derivative? 8. Tell me about your numerical skills? 9. What is your best achievement in life and why? 10. What do you know about FRM? 11. Did you do any CSR Project? What was your target and how did you meet it? 12. Can you do VBA Macro’s? What can you do? 13. Can you do coding? 14. What subjects did you study for your MSc and what did you do? 15. What subjects did you study for your third year and what did you do?