First thing
you should have done was mentioned what country you're interested in.
Finance isn't like
SCJP. Financial certifications are issued by professional organizations, which generally have some degree of regulating and lobbying powers that the IT industry has never managed to build. Which organizations you have to apply to vary with the country and the certification may require not only testing on knowledge but time in grade.
I'm more in the technology end of IT than the applications end, but when I first started, it was briefly in the Life Insurance industry, and I believe that the certification I was encouraged to seek was either FLMI or LOMA. Memory is hazy, but I think one of them was the organization and the other was the certification program.
When I worked in banking, I had to take annual exams to demonstrate knowledge of the "opt-out" privacy laws and money-laundering regulations. I got pieces of paper for passing, but these weren't things I could display to help me get a job. Though if I didn't pass annually, I'd lose the job I had.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.