I’m looking for better long-term career opportunities outside my current banking role. Would data analytics be a practical option?
Yes, it can be a very practical career switch for banking professionals. Your existing experience with financial products, customer data, reporting, risk, and KPIs can be useful in analytics roles.
I’d focus on Excel, SQL, Power BI, and basic statistics first, then build a few banking-related projects such as loan analysis, customer segmentation, fraud detection, or risk reporting.
A Data Science Course can be useful if you want a structured way to build the technical skills.
The main advantage is that you’re adding technical skills to an industry domain you already understand, rather than starting completely from scratch.