Welcome to your interview.
The question is on your right: Automating Manual Financial Reporting. Take a moment with it first.
Talk your thinking through with me if you like - when you're confident, submit your answer and I'll grade it like a real screen (7/10 or better passes). Discussion and graded submissions share your five interviewer interactions, so spend them well.
You inherit a recurring reporting process that is still being run by hand. Each cycle, someone exports data from operational systems, cleans it in spreadsheets, applies business rules, and sends out a final report. You want to replace that with a repeatable pipeline so the output is faster, easier to audit, and less error-prone.
Describe a time you automated a manual reporting process using code.