Corporate functions run the business itself: finance, accounting, people, legal and administration. Skills split by specialty, with accounting standards and credentials showing up strongly in the finance roles.
We analyzed 575 U.S. job descriptions from 182 employers for Finance, HR & Legal roles. The most requested skills were Excel (35%), PowerPoint (16%) and Project management (15%).
6,776open U.S. roles tracked
4 yearstypical experience asked for
$162,500median advertised pay, from 1,034 roles that state it
Business tools
Excel35%
PowerPoint16%
SAP9%
Oracle ERP3%
Product & design
Project management15%
Agile5%
Finance & legal
CPA11%
Regulatory compliance10%
SOX10%
Financial modeling10%
FP&A8%
GAAP7%
Stakeholder management4%
Operations
ERP systems7%
OSHA3%
Root cause analysis3%
Languages
SQL6%
Data
Power BI6%
Tableau5%
AI & machine learning
Machine learning3%
Generative AI3%
Updated November 7, 2026, using job descriptions collected since October 8, 2026. Shares show how many of the sampled descriptions mention a skill, so a low share can still be a firm requirement in the roles that list it. We sample a limited number of descriptions per employer so that no single company dominates, and we only report figures backed by several employers. Advertised pay comes from a different group of roles than H1B filings, so the two are not directly comparable.
