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Controlled AI Interviews / Financial Analyst question set

PreviewPublish Set

Questions in set

8

fixed order

Candidates invited

212

same script

Scoring consistency

0.92

across reviewers

Questions Nura will ask

You control the script
1

Walk me through a forecast model you built end to end.

3 min
Financial analysisRequiredLocked
2

Describe a time your numbers were challenged by leadership.

3 min
Rigor under pressureRequiredLocked
3

How would you shorten our month-end close by five days?

2 min
Process improvementRequiredEditing
4

Explain a variance report to a non-finance stakeholder.

3 min
CommunicationRequiredLocked
5

Which SaaS metrics would you track for a payments line?

2 min
Domain knowledgeRequiredLocked
6

Tell me about a control failure you caught and fixed.

3 min
Risk & controlsRequiredLocked

+ Add question 7 of 8 · drag to reorder

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Interview rules

Question order

Identical for all candidates

AI follow-ups

Off controlled mode

Off-script answers

Redirect to next question

Rubric

Behavioral anchors, 1–5

Time per question

Fixed, enforced

Audit trail

Transcript + audio retained

Retake policy

No retakes

Candidate preview

Question 3
Nura Xobin AI interviewer
How would you shorten our month-end close by five days?
I'd automate the accrual entries first, then run reconciliations in parallel…
Nura Xobin AI interviewer
Walk me through the journal entries you'd automate which ones first?

Megan Cortez · recording · 2:14 of 2:00 limit

What actually happens

A fixed question set every candidate answers.

  1. 1

    You write the interview

    Set the exact questions, order, time limits and rubric weights the AI asks those and nothing else.

    XobinControlled Interview / Question set Staff AccountantLock set

    Walk through your month-end close

    3 min · weight 25%

    Q1

    Describe a reconciliation you fixed

    3 min · weight 25%

    Q2

    How do you handle a late accrual?

    2 min · weight 20%

    Q3

    ERP systems you have owned

    2 min · weight 15%

    Q4

    A control you strengthened

    2 min · weight 15%

    Q5
  2. 2

    Nura runs the same interview every time

    Candidates get a natural spoken interview with no improvised follow-ups, so nobody gets an easier or harder version.

    XobinControlled Interview / Live Hannah Pike

    Nura

    Question 2 of 5. Describe a reconciliation you fixed and what caused the variance.

    HP

    Hannah Pike

    Intercompany balances were off $18K from a duplicated journal entry.

    Nura

    Noted. Question 3 of 5, you have two minutes.

    HP

    Hannah Pike

    For a late accrual, I book an estimate and true it up in the next period.

    Timing, order and prompts identical for all 42 candidates

  3. 3

    Compare a whole cohort at once

    Answers are scored per question against your rubric, so you can rank candidates on the same criterion instead of on interviewer memory.

    XobinReports / Controlled Interview Staff AccountantRank by rubric
    CandidateCloseControlsTotal
    Hannah Pike888486
    Devin Cross827981
    Omar Haddad768880
    Bianca Ortiz717070
    Kevin Doyle586260

What you get out of it

Every candidate gets the same interview, exactly.

  • 100%structured

    Your questions, your order, your rubric the AI never improvises off-script.

  • 24/7availability

    Candidates interview when they're free; panels read scored transcripts later.

  • Defensiblescoring

    Identical questions and criteria make comparisons easy to justify to a hiring manager.

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Before you ask.

Here the question set is fixed. Every candidate gets the same questions in the same order, which is what makes the comparison across candidates defensible.

No. Follow-ups are limited to clarification within the question you wrote, and the transcript shows exactly what was asked.

Against your rubric per question, with the evidence quoted from the transcript. A human can override any score.

Yes for the major platforms Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, SmartRecruiters, iCIMS, Ashby and others through native sync or API. Anything custom is handled with a webhook or scheduled sync.

Data stays inside your account and is never used to train models outside it. Xobin is SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified, with GDPR-aligned data processing and configurable retention.

Most teams are live in two days. The variable is usually your existing tooling and approvals, not the product itself.

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