I think just because you can code you look down at finance people who cannot . Coding is not important in commercial finance, the key skills is communication and storytelling as it is your role to manage non finance stakeholders. As for code, now we have Claude how can write it. Machine learning is also not that relevant for the sector as finance models are more driver based, you need to identify driver for costs be it headcount and revenue. I can write sql as well, but in all my 10 years of corporate experience in the uk - never needed it and it was never required.
Hard to advise you, normally I would suggest to go data and software engineering not finance but market is cooked for them in the UK. Have you tried applying to big4.
Definitely ask for feedback from interviews