Apply for finance jobs. If you can't get them, make yourself more attractive in future. How to do this? Some suggestions:
- Do you interview well? If not, improve this. Take interviews to practice.
- Banks prefer people with experience in finance. If you don't have any, join a consultancy or a company like LMAX that can get you that experience and which are more open to outsiders.
I'd agree with all this, and if you don't have financial experience I'd suggest doing some Coursera courses that cover the relevant areas and putting those on your CV. At the very least it would show willing.
- Do you interview well? If not, improve this. Take interviews to practice.
- Banks prefer people with experience in finance. If you don't have any, join a consultancy or a company like LMAX that can get you that experience and which are more open to outsiders.
- Go to meetups. Make connections.
- Learn Scala.