Senior Legal Counsel, Financial Services - London

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, insurances 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 i.e. 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 prioritizing 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 judgment, 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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