Finance skill
Forecasting jobs
Projecting future values from history and assumptions, and being explicit about the assumptions. Central to finance, planning, and operations. Below: the 8 occupations it unlocks on this board, live counts included, and the skills that show up beside it in real postings.
What Forecasting unlocks
Occupations whose postings name this skill, from the adjacency data the instrument runs on. Counts are live board inventory, refreshed nightly.
| Occupation | Live roles | More |
|---|---|---|
| Account Executive | 600 | salary |
| Accountant | 600 | salary |
| Operations Manager | 600 | salary |
| Financial Analyst | 523 | salary |
| Data Scientist | 458 | salary |
| Supply Chain Analyst | 227 | salary |
| Financial Controller | 135 | salary |
| Economist | 54 | salary |
Named beside it
Co-occurrence measured over 28,628 postings: how often each skill appears in the same posting as Forecasting.
- Tableautogether in 54
- Budgetingtogether in 73
- Negotiationtogether in 135
- Financial Modelingtogether in 70
- Salestogether in 223
- Journalismtogether in 38
Quick answers
What is Forecasting?
Projecting future values from history and assumptions, and being explicit about the assumptions. Central to finance, planning, and operations. On this board it is a finance skill, extracted from posting text by the nightly scrape. Every skill, defined: the glossary.
How many jobs ask for Forecasting?
Forecasting unlocks 8 occupations on this board, with 3,197 live roles across them right now. The largest is Account Executive (600 open).
What skills pair with Forecasting?
Measured over 28,628 postings, the skills most often named beside Forecasting are Tableau (together in 54), Budgeting (together in 73), Negotiation (together in 135).
Skills are extracted from posting text by the nightly scrape and mapped to occupations through the same lexicon the career instrument uses. A skill page exists only while enough live roles are reachable through it; counts are inventory, never padding.