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Skills in future finance jobs

What skills do you think is a must have in the future? SQL is popular now, python, SaS?

Susquehanna International Kristaps11 May 16, 2020

Probably anyone should learn to program a little just to make themselves slightly less inefficient doing menial tasks.

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1kpn82 May 17, 2020

Agreed with SQL, I have been spending time over COVID trying to learn

Barclays PLC Adjusted May 17, 2020

Excel is still the king for the foreseeable future.

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BigElbow May 17, 2020

SQL

E. & J. Gallo Winery Audie May 17, 2020

SQL, Python, RStudio, & Excel.

KPMG iRIf44 OP May 17, 2020

Do companies actually use R? Learned some in college but never seen non academic application

Sony Lirik Jun 1, 2020

Unless you are in a data scientist / analytics role, you probably won't have the opportunity to use R (and likely python tbh)

Alvarez & Marsal user178 May 18, 2020

Excel and strong accounting background.

Hyundai Capital America fpna May 18, 2020

SQL and Python, with perhaps some basic machine learning integrated

Barclays PLC highflye May 20, 2020

How do you use SQL on the job

Hyundai Capital America fpna May 21, 2020

Doing some data analytics stuff and basic stuff like querying for ad-hoc reports and such

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IBD May 19, 2020

What sort of roles though? Investment banking is still going to be heavily driven by relationships/sales/presentations, for example, with any software shifts being secondary

Two Sigma Czen123 May 23, 2020

Depends on the type of finance position you are interested in but SQL and Python are definitely needed, probably also an understanding of numpy and pandas libraries

American Express D.BCooper Jun 8, 2020

Sql, Python. Sql will always be around. Python is popular now.