What to Expect
Tesla is accelerating the world’s transition to sustainable energy. Revolutionary strategies and products were developed within a few years and successfully launched on a large scale. This is only possible through extraordinary speed, innovation and efficiency.
Tesla is seeking a highly motivated commercial legal counsel (at least Senior Legal Counsel level) with a strong background in financial services to join our dynamic legal team. The ideal candidate will play a critical role in advising on complex financial transactions, ensuring regulatory compliance, and supporting the company’s EMEA financial services operations in the B2C and B2B business. This position requires a deep understanding of financial services law, strong analytical skills, and the ability to navigate evolving legal and regulatory landscapes while aligning with Tesla’s innovative mission. The successful candidate will be a team member of the EMEA Legal team and, in addition to the support of financial services, will work on a variety legal commercial and regulatory matters in the EMEA region.
You are a team player, highly organized, self‑motivated, pro‑active, entrepreneurial and have a strong sense of ownership. You have the ability to think strategically and know how to successfully and independently manage complex legal matters while prioritizing your resources efficiently. This is a great opportunity to work at a fast growing, highly diversified and dynamic company while having significant impact in your market.
What You’ll Do
- Advise on compliance with local and international financial regulations, including banking, securities, insurance or other financial products and anti‑money laundering laws.
- Draft, review, and negotiate financial agreements, contracts, and partnerships involving banks and other financing partners, fintech, investments, securitisation or capital markets.
- Conduct legal risk assessments and develop strategies to mitigate exposure in financial operations; lead or support engagement with financial regulators (e.g., FCA, BaFin, etc.).
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to ensure alignment with Tesla’s business objectives and regulatory requirements and general commercial and regulatory legal matters in EMEA.
- Monitor and analyse regulatory updates to provide actionable insights for policy and process improvements.
- Represent Tesla in disputes or investigations related to financial services, working closely with internal and external legal counsel.
- Support creation of involving financial entities as well as their strategic development, including strategic partnerships.
What You’ll Bring
- You are a UK qualified lawyer, with experience at a law firm and/or in‑house corporate international environment. Ideally with a background in being a country/regional lawyer, with an exceptional ability to handle a high workload of complex legal matters at the same time.
- You are a team player with the ability to proactively identify problems, drive projects, and execute pragmatic/creative legal and business solutions on a timely basis.
- You inspire trust, forge relationships quickly with key stakeholders at all levels, and earn the confidence and cooperation of your business partners.
- You work well both autonomously, collaboratively and transparently, and are effective at juggling and prioritising competing tasks in a fast‑paced, challenging environment.
- You possess an entrepreneurial mindset, quick and flexible learner, with high standards, impeccable integrity and ethics, unquestionable good judgement, well‑honed analytical skills.
- You have excellent communication skills, with a business level to near native level fluency in English (written and spoken).
- Advanced understanding of financial markets, corporate finance, and transactional law.
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