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If it's SAS, it fully makes sense. It's a powerful toolkit to design financial models, along with R and Matlab.
On the contrary of R which is free and has no support, SAS can provide a full support of the product with its financial engineers.
It will definitely be a "plus" to know this software in the financial industry.