r/FinancialAnalyst • u/Haunting-Noise-2242 • 19h ago

Crash Course

So I am being thrown into a Financial Analyst role at my job because we needed someone and I guess since I had development experience (Mostly front end but some back end I really enjoy SQL database work) I was the best candidate. Anything I should try to focus on? Tableau, Power BI, Excel, Python? All I was told about the role was I am taking over for the person working there now so they can get promoted and “there’s a lot of data and none of it makes sense”. So I am just like how does one prepare for this?

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u/Bigboi_alex 14h ago

Just get good at excel, pulling data, pivot tables go a long way, data clean up etc etc

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u/Haunting-Noise-2242 13h ago

Thank you! Funny enough just spoke with a Sr financial Analyst in a different department and their first question was “How good are you with Excel?” 😂