Writing a financial analyst resume

Everything below is counted from 1,569 live financial analystpostings, taken from employers’ own career pages rather than a job board. Nothing here is advice about what usually works. It is what these specific postings say.

Open roles: 1,569
Employers: 664
Remote: 6%
Verified live (7d): 1,290

What they ask for

Counted across 1,384 of the most recent 1,500 postings, the ones that named a skill we recognise. A share is of those, not of every posting.

Microsoft Excel83%
CPA31%
Microsoft Power BI25%
Enterprise Resource Planning25%
SAP25%
Microsoft PowerPoint23%
GAAP16%
Tableau14%
Workday11%
Oracle Hyperion10%
SAP Business Intelligence7%
IFRS7%
Microsoft Outlook7%
Oracle NetSuite5%

This is a floor, not a ceiling: the reader behind it only counts terms it recognises, so a skill missing here means it was not matched, not that nobody wants it. Put what you actually have on the page.

Who is hiring right now

St Jude Medical S C Inc40
PPD Argentina, S.A.33
UKG Medtronic UK LTD25
Company 1 - The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company22
US.020 Houlihan Lokey Financial Advisors, Inc.18
Blue Origin Personnel, LLC14
Extendicare14
CORP-Corporate Office14
Husky Injection Molding14
Canadian Tire Corporation, Ltd.13
6010-Biosense Webster Inc. Legal Entity12
Anduril Industries11

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