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What Finance job postings ask for

SQL appears in 27% of Finance job postings, followed by Excel (27%) and AI (22%) — counted across 256 live postings from company career sites.

Every term below was counted in real postings published by employers. We tally what each posting names at least once, so one keyword-stuffed listing can’t inflate a number.

Counted across 256 Finance postings gathered from company career sites and seen in the last 90 days. Percentages are the share of those postings naming each term. Last verified against live postings on ; re-checked every six hours.

Skills and tools, most-asked first

  1. SQL27% · 69 of 256
  2. Excel27% · 69 of 256
  3. AI22% · 56 of 256
  4. Netsuite15% · 38 of 256
  5. Salesforce14% · 36 of 256
  6. Asc 60611% · 28 of 256
  7. Google sheets9% · 23 of 256
  8. Us gaap9% · 23 of 256
  9. Tableau8% · 20 of 256
  10. Python8% · 20 of 256
  11. U.s. gaap7% · 18 of 256
  12. Financial modeling7% · 18 of 256
  13. Workday7% · 18 of 256
  14. Cpq5% · 13 of 256
  15. Sox5% · 13 of 256
  16. Automation5% · 13 of 256
  17. Oracle5% · 13 of 256
  18. Sap5% · 13 of 256
  19. Ai tools4% · 10 of 256
  20. Anaplan4% · 10 of 256
  21. ERP4% · 10 of 256
  22. Looker4% · 10 of 256
  23. Ifrs4% · 10 of 256
  24. Ms excel4% · 10 of 256
  25. Databricks3% · 8 of 256

Questions about this data

What skills do most Finance job postings ask for?

Across 256 Finance postings from the last 90 days, the most frequently named are SQL (27%), Excel (27%), AI (22%). Each percentage is the share of those postings naming the term at least once.

How common is Python in Finance postings?

Python appears in 8% of the 256 Finance postings counted — roughly 20 of them. That places it mid-pack rather than near-universal, which is worth knowing before you rewrite a résumé around it.

Where does this Finance data come from?

Public job postings published by employers on their own career sites, collected through the official Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby job-board APIs. It is a count of 256 real postings seen in the last 90 days — not a survey, an estimate, or a model's guess.

Should I add these skills to my résumé?

Only the ones you genuinely have. Frequency tells you which terms to surface and phrase in the employer's own words if they are already true of you. Adding a skill you can't defend is the fastest way to fail an interview, so FreshStartr reports gaps rather than writing them in.

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Which of these does your résumé actually evidence?

Paste a Finance posting and you get a line-by-line match report: what you already prove, and what you don’t. Gaps are reported, never written in for you.

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