You are asked to explain which Excel functions you use most often in financial analysis and why. Keep the answer practical, and connect those spreadsheet habits to SQL data manipulation patterns you would use for recurring reporting, reconciliation, and cleanup tasks.
How you summarize financial dataHow you apply conditional business logicHow you reconcile datasets with key-based matchingHow you handle missing values and messy exportsA strong answer should mention a few high-value Excel functions such as SUMIFS, IF, XLOOKUP, and IFERROR, then explain how the same logic appears in SQL through GROUP BY, CASE WHEN, joins, and data wrangling.