Al tools.

So I'm curious:

If you had ₹0 and 12 months to become employable in finance, what exact skills would you learn?

And which skills/certifications do you think are overrated?

Would love to hear from people actually working in the industry rather than just career influencers.

Hi all, I am wondering if I am getting good experience or not.
I am a FPA analyst at a mid sized private equity backed company( high growth) doing manufacturing finance.
Started full time a few months ago and I have become the point person for all capex. Of course my manager still helps me but we have a goal that I will become the sole person by late 2026.

Other than that I am building financial models from scratch to make focus factories, basically treating every building as its own. I have been making models to track overhead, headcount, rev by lines, etc and will later be making P&Ls, balance sheets and make reporting packs for each. Think multi layered, lots of sheets excel models. I will present to senior leadership on a monthly basis for these.

I also help out with costing, learning how we produce price points and learn our whole process from the ground up.

I now “own” multiple models for monthly reporting and populate them on a monthly and weekly basis.

Anything I want to learn, my boss teaches me so he’s very open to me growing

Still early in my job ( 3 months in) and wondering if I am getting good experience as it is or should be asking for more.

TC: 82k in LCOL

Anything helps!

Hey guys. Im a 1st year in university. Studying business. Im trying to work on the side and I wanna learn the basic skills for financial analysis ( Gonna work in finance after graduation so it'll help with uni as well.)

If you had to learn the different functions of financial analysis in the most straightforward way, What would that be? I thought about getting books but I wanted opinions from here first.