Custody Operations Officer practice interview
Trade settlement, asset servicing, cash and position reconciliation, and control of custody instructions. Practise the 5 questions interviewers ask for this role with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.
Free with an Intaviu account: 320 credits a month, at 10 credits a minute of practice. Private: interview creators never see them.
- Mid level
- 15 minutes
- 5 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About the role
This interview focuses on the safe administration of securities and cash held for clients. The panel is looking for precise settlement work, disciplined reconciliations, strong corporate action handling and clear escalation when an instruction or record does not agree.
How to prepare
- Revise the trade lifecycle from instruction and matching through settlement and position update.
- Practise tracing a cash or securities break across internal and external records.
- Review mandatory and voluntary corporate actions and the controls around client elections.
- Prepare an example of resolving an operational exception under a fixed cut-off.
- Think through the approvals required for manual instructions and account detail changes.
Common mistakes
- Focusing on speed while skipping instruction validation or approval controls.
- Clearing a reconciliation break without preserving evidence of the root cause.
- Waiting until after a market cut-off to escalate an unresolved settlement risk.
What to expect
A real first-round interview
5 questions the way interviewers ask for this role, with follow-ups when an answer needs more.
Spoken, like the real thing
Speak your answers in your browser or the free desktop app, with live captions. You can ask the interviewer to repeat anything.
Scored on 4 areas
The things this interview weighs most. With a paid plan, your report shows how you did on each one.
A private report
On Plus, Pro and Premium: every answer scored, your strongest lines quoted and what to say differently next time. Interview creators never see it.
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