While finance fundamentals involve more than math, basic math skills are a must, including understanding how to use them to create efficient and well-organized Excel spreadsheets. You also need to know how to present your ideas—either verbally or through writing—with concision and clarity. In addition, you need to build a financial forecast, which outlines to stakeholders the most likely trajectory of a financial strategy or development. In addition to the skills required to create and present financial reports, you also need to be able to problem-solve issues using straightforward logic and sift through large amounts of data, analyze what you see, and use what you discerned to formulate plans of action. To understand how minor and major factors interact, you also need to grasp both high-level concepts and granular details and see how they intersect with each other.