Goldman Sachs Excel Skills for Business

Get Career Ready

Build the technical skills you'll use on the job. 3-4 hours and self-paced.

Stand out in your application to Goldman Sachs. Show us you're a motivated candidate.

Get Career Ready

Build the technical skills you'll use on the job. 3-4 hours and self-paced.

Stand out in your application to Goldman Sachs. Show us you're a motivated candidate.

Why complete this job simulation

A risk-free way to build your technical skills with us at Goldman Sachs. Complete example tasks and build your confidence to ace your applications.

Self-paced3-4 hoursNo gradesNo assessmentsIntermediate

At Goldman Sachs, we’re excited to equip learners like you with one of the most critical skills any professional in any industry should have: the ability to use Excel & spreadsheets.

With Excel and spreadsheets, professionals at Goldman Sachs are able to advise on some of the most transformative deals and business projects in the world - with some being in the hundreds of billions of dollars.

Throughout this job simulation and course, you’ll familiarize yourself with some of the tricks, patterns and tools professionals at Goldman Sachs use every day at work.

Benefits for students:

• No applications, self-paced and can participate from anywhere in the world
• Certificate of completion from Goldman Sachs awarded to those that complete the program recognizing the Excel skills demonstrated
• Come out of this program with a complete and professional Excel model that you can walk through employers and interviewers with

Skills you will learn and practice:

Excel

Cell Biology

Formatting, Comments and Naming

Assumption Analysis

Financial Forecasting

Financial Statement Analysis

Cash Flow Modeling

Data Visualization

How it works

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Task One: Basic Excel Skills

30-60 mins

Introductory

Understand key shortcuts and functionalities in Excel related to banking and finance

What you'll learn

An overview of Excel shortcuts including data selection, editing, and formatting.

What you'll do

Practice the key Excel shortcuts after watching some video resources.

Reviews

Over 20900

5 Star Reviews

"I loved how the program went from basic formulas to more advanced. It helped me gain a better understanding with Excel. The program also gives you hands-on experiences, allowing me to apply in real life scenarios."-- Student from CUNY Baruch College

"Presented in an easy and very well specified way not too complex or too easy but in an manageable way. Overall a very good experience and definitely improve my understanding."-- Student from Lovely Professional University

"I am going to pursue my MBA in a couple of months and I have the basics of Accounting but all I have is theoretical knowledge, this program actually gave me practical experience on how to prepare financial statements on Excel sheets and how third parties actually interpret the data and get meaningful insights."-- Student from Banasthali University

"I liked the high skilled questions which were brought up that furnished my Excel skills and deepened my understanding."-- Student from Punjab Engineering College

"first of all, this programme helped me a lot in improving my excel skills as I am going opt my occupation in the field of management and this certification will help me a lot in getting into the cooperate sector thankyou Goldman Sachs for creating such a platform for students like is"-- Student from Lovely Professional University

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