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What Finance job postings ask for

SQL appears in 28% of Finance job postings, followed by Excel (27%) and AI (24%) — counted across 393 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 393 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. SQL28% · 110 of 393
  2. Excel27% · 106 of 393
  3. AI24% · 94 of 393
  4. Netsuite18% · 71 of 393
  5. Salesforce13% · 51 of 393
  6. Google sheets9% · 35 of 393
  7. Asc 6069% · 35 of 393
  8. Us gaap8% · 31 of 393
  9. Tableau7% · 28 of 393
  10. Python7% · 28 of 393
  11. U.s. gaap6% · 24 of 393
  12. Sox6% · 24 of 393
  13. Financial modeling6% · 24 of 393
  14. Workday6% · 24 of 393
  15. Sap6% · 24 of 393
  16. Oracle6% · 24 of 393
  17. Ifrs5% · 20 of 393
  18. Automation5% · 20 of 393
  19. Ai tools4% · 16 of 393
  20. Cpq4% · 16 of 393
  21. Claude4% · 16 of 393
  22. ERP4% · 16 of 393
  23. Ms excel4% · 16 of 393
  24. Looker3% · 12 of 393
  25. Anaplan3% · 12 of 393

Questions about this data

What skills do most Finance job postings ask for?

Across 393 Finance postings from the last 90 days, the most frequently named are SQL (28%), Excel (27%), AI (24%). 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 393 Finance postings counted — roughly 28 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 393 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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