Maths is as much about a way of thinking as it is about the skills themselves. And even that lies on several levels. Someone else noted that the analytical and abstraction skills common to maths are valuable to programming and that is one level. I would also argue that there is another level which contains precise analogues that carry from one to the other - for example the set theory behind relational databases, which is all hidden by the SQL semantics.
Very often the "best" - by which I mean most performant and concise - solutions are those which have a bit of maths behind them. If you start to think about your data-oriented programming problems as matrix manipulation, which many are, you can often find novel solutions form the world of maths.
Obviously it is not necessary to be a maths expert in order to program, anyone can be taught, but it is one of the skills that is worth having - and looking for in recruits.