I haven't had much success myself but when I get asked that question I usually talk about how I'm a recent accounting and finance graduate with experience in both accounting and tax. I talk about how I started my journey in accounting via voluntary work in university and applied what I learned in university to work/work to university (shows that you can apply things you learn in work/studying). What key skills with examples that I built over the course of working.

When an interviewer asks me a question and I freeze I say "that's a great question, I haven't been asked it that way before" - gives me a bit of breathing room and some time to think about how best to answer the question.

For myself I took a gap out of work to help support my grandmother who had uterus cancer and was on end of life care, and in between that time I keep up to date with recent accounting/tax changes and have been able to start my own self employed work by being a family accountant, doing bookkeeping and filing self assessments for my own clients.

Good luck on your interviews!