TransUnion Financial Analyst Interview Questions
& Process

I applied online for the Financial Analyst job in Chicago, and got a referral from someone in HR. A week or two later, I heard back from them. The first step was a 20-30 minute phone call with an HR person who talked about the company, asked about me, and inquired about my current and desired salary. After that, I was supposed to have an onsite interview, but couldn't coordinate schedules. So, I ended up having two video interviews in one day. The first was with the director of the team, who asked about my motivations and project experiences. The second was with my manager, and they focused more on technical skills like Excel charts, pivot tables, data analysis, and forecasting. These video calls were about 45 minutes each. The next day, I had a 45-minute phone interview with the VP of sales for the branch I'd be working with. He discussed his team, asked about my background, and I asked him a lot of questions to understand the role better. A few days later, I got the job offer. I was surprised because I thought I messed up the video interviews due to some unexpected specific questions. Definitely ask a lot of questions (4-5 good ones) to show interest, as they were impressed by my questions.

The interview process includes 3 steps: a phone screening with HR, a phone interview with hiring manager & VP, and then an on-site interview. TransUnion moves and responses pretty fast throughout the whole interview process, it takes 3 weeks in total. In the phone interview with hiring manager&VP, they asked a lot about previous project experiences, also also very practical questions they met during their daily work. The hiring manager and VP were very kind, they listened carefully and discussed many details about the projects. Nothing really hard, but you really need to prepare very well for everything on your resume. The onsite interview becomes more intensive. I met with 10 people in total, ranges from VP to analyst. The interviews were quite technical. They asked a lot of questions about statistics, modeling, SAS, SQL coding. Many of the interviewers also asked very open-ending case style questions, and let me solve a series of questions given a particular setting. Everyone there was very polite and smart. I really enjoyed talking with them.

HR messed up my interview dates and called my work number instead of my cell to leave a message, which was a bad sign. I had two interviews with people, which were pretty easy. Then I had to meet a VP from another department. Luckily, I knew them, and we talked for over an hour. They offered me the job a week later. I had another offer from a Canadian bank and accepted that one. When I called to reject the offer, they weren't happy. Glad I don't work there. The fit just didn't feel right.