# Market evidence report — financial-manager

Source: **38 real job ads** (JSearch API, countries: us 38), extracted into the MSSQL evidence store; as of 2026-07-11.
This report contains extracted, aggregated facts only — no ad text is
reproduced (copyright / platform terms).

## Seniority distribution

| Seniority | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|
| mid | 21 | 55 % |
| senior | 15 | 39 % |
| lead | 2 | 5 % |

## Tools — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft Excel | 12 | 32 % |
| 2 | Cognos | 4 | 11 % |
| 3 | Microsoft PowerPoint | 4 | 11 % |
| 4 | SAP | 4 | 11 % |
| 5 | Essbase | 3 | 8 % |
| 6 | JD Edwards | 3 | 8 % |
| 7 | Lawson | 3 | 8 % |
| 8 | Microsoft Office | 3 | 8 % |
| 9 | Microsoft Word | 3 | 8 % |
| 10 | MS Access | 3 | 8 % |
| 11 | Oracle | 3 | 8 % |
| 12 | QuickBooks | 3 | 8 % |
| 13 | SQL | 3 | 8 % |

## Hard skills — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | financial reporting | 14 | 37 % |
| 2 | budgeting | 13 | 34 % |
| 3 | financial analysis | 12 | 32 % |
| 4 | forecasting | 11 | 29 % |
| 5 | data analysis | 8 | 21 % |
| 6 | financial modeling | 8 | 21 % |
| 7 | financial planning | 6 | 16 % |
| 8 | variance analysis | 6 | 16 % |
| 9 | accounting | 5 | 13 % |
| 10 | budget management | 5 | 13 % |
| 11 | budget forecasting | 3 | 8 % |
| 12 | compliance | 3 | 8 % |
| 13 | cost analysis | 3 | 8 % |

## Methods — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|

## Responsibilities — full market ranking

| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | financial reporting | 7 | 18 % |
| 2 | financial support | 3 | 8 % |

## Regional breakdown

> **Corpus note:** 38 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.

### US (us)

38 ads.

**Top hard skills:**

- financial reporting — 37 % (14 ads)
- budgeting — 34 % (13 ads)
- financial analysis — 32 % (12 ads)
- forecasting — 29 % (11 ads)
- data analysis — 21 % (8 ads)
- financial modeling — 21 % (8 ads)
- financial planning — 16 % (6 ads)
- variance analysis — 16 % (6 ads)
- accounting — 13 % (5 ads)
- budget management — 13 % (5 ads)

**Top tools:**

- Microsoft Excel — 32 % (12 ads)
- Cognos — 11 % (4 ads)
- Microsoft PowerPoint — 11 % (4 ads)
- SAP — 11 % (4 ads)
- Essbase — 8 % (3 ads)
- JD Edwards — 8 % (3 ads)
- Lawson — 8 % (3 ads)
- Microsoft Office — 8 % (3 ads)
- Microsoft Word — 8 % (3 ads)
- MS Access — 8 % (3 ads)

**Seniority:** mid 55 % · senior 39 % · lead 5 %

### UK (gb)

**Insufficient evidence** — 0 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.

### EU/DACH (de, at, ch, nl)

**Insufficient evidence** — 0 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.


## Job title variants in the market

| Title | Ads |
|---|---|
| Financial Manager | 4 |
| Finance Manager | 2 |
| Senior Financial Manager | 2 |
| Business Financial Manager (Secret Clearance 26-026) with Security Clearance | 1 |
| Business Financial Manager- Proactive Health Office (#26-100) | 1 |
| CFO | 1 |
| CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER I | 1 |
| Corporate Finance Senior Manager | 1 |
| Federal Financial Manager | 1 |
| Finance and Business Manager | 1 |
| Finance Director | 1 |
| Finance Manager (Remote) | 1 |
| Finance Manager , AWS Network Finance | 1 |
| Finance Manager, Amazon Rapid Logistics | 1 |
| Finance Manager, Engineering | 1 |
| Finance Manager, USNS, North American Customer Fulfillment | 1 |
| Financial Manager - Critical Power Group - Tysons, VA | 1 |
| FINANCIAL MANAGER-DIRECT HIRE AUTHORITY | 1 |
| Future Opening: Fractional Chief Financial Officer Trades Mosaic | 1 |
| Manager - Financial Transformation & Integration | 1 |
| Navy ERP Financial Manager | Journeyman | 1 |
| Principal Financial Manager with Security Clearance | 1 |
| Private Equity Finance & Ops Associate Path to CFO | 1 |
| Program Finance Manager | 1 |
| Senior Finance Manager - Corporate FP&A | 1 |

Methodology: entities extracted per ad ({hard_skills, tools, methods, responsibilities, seniority}), normalized, counted as DISTINCT ads per entity; report threshold ≥ 3 ads. Headline sections in skills.md/tools.md use the stricter ≥ 20 % threshold.