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What Finance job postings ask for

Excel appears in 31% of Finance job postings — the term employers name most often.

Counted across 471 Finance postings gathered from company career sites and seen in the last 90 days. Each percentage is the share of those postings naming the term at least once. Last verified ; re-checked every six hours.

How these numbers are counted

Skills and tools, most-asked first

  1. Excel31% 145 of 471
  2. SQL27% 127 of 471
  3. AI22% 104 of 471
  4. Netsuite16% 76 of 471
  5. Salesforce11% 54 of 471
  6. Asc 6069% 44 of 471
  7. Google sheets9% 43 of 471
  8. Financial modeling9% 42 of 471
  9. Us gaap8% 38 of 471
  10. Python7% 35 of 471
  11. Oracle7% 34 of 471
  12. Tableau6% 27 of 471
  13. Sap6% 26 of 471
  14. Sox6% 26 of 471
  15. U.s. gaap6% 26 of 471
  16. Anaplan5% 23 of 471
  17. Ifrs4% 21 of 471
  18. Workday4% 20 of 471
  19. Microsoft excel4% 19 of 471
  20. Gaap4% 18 of 471
  21. Automation4% 18 of 471
  22. Ai tools4% 18 of 471
  23. Oracle fusion4% 17 of 471
  24. Databricks3% 16 of 471
  25. Looker3% 15 of 471

Questions about this data

What skills do most Finance job postings ask for?

Across 471 Finance postings from the last 90 days, the most frequently named are Excel (31%), SQL (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 7% of the 471 Finance postings counted — 35 of them exactly. 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 471 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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