Interested in pivoting into analytics within finance.

I'm currently a data analyst at an ad-tech company and I'm really not that interested in advertising. A lot of jobs I see highly value not only analytics experience but high competency in financial knowledge. I've taken plenty finance courses and have experience creating models but seems tough jumping ship without practical experience in an applied field (PE, IB, AM/IM, etc.). Any pointers on best foot forward?

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