EMEA Finance Operations Manager - Funding

5 Days ago • All levels • Operations • Undisclosed

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Job Description

The EMEA Finance Operations Manager (Funding) at Tesla is responsible for overseeing daily operations of the Funding team, ensuring timely payments from banks and other third parties. This role involves establishing performance metrics, driving initiatives to improve funding time and credit policy adherence, collaborating with local teams on process centralization and automation, and developing policies to enforce payment terms. The ideal candidate will have experience managing operations teams in fast-paced environments, a strong analytical background, excellent communication skills, and a proactive approach to process improvement. The role requires managing multiple time-critical tasks and collaborating effectively with various teams to scale Tesla's operations in EMEA and reduce accounts receivables.

Must have:

Manage operations team
Improve funding processes
Monitor team performance
Collaborate with local teams
Develop enforcement mechanisms

What to Expect

The EMEA Finance Operations Manager (Funding) is part of Tesla’s Financial Services team. The Funding team is responsible for ensuring Tesla receives timely payments in full from banks, leasing companies and other third parties across different business lines including vehicles, supercharging and service. The EMEA Funding Manager will be responsible for coordinating daily operational activities for the team and implementing improvements to the funding process to improve time to collect Accounts Receivables and team efficiency. They are expected to do this by working closely with their own team as well as other centralized and local teams to establish processes and controls that allow Tesla to grow the overall number of deliveries and fleet size in EMEA while reducing Accounts Receivables across the region.

The ideal candidate will possess an interest in building and improving processes while staying on top of regular daily activities for the team. They will be thorough and proactively seek out and identifying improvements and action these to ensure they are implemented.

What You’ll Do

Oversee the daily operations for the Funding team to ensure invoices are paid within payment terms
Establish metrics to measure the various parts of the Funding process and monitor these on an ongoing basis to understand team performance and opportunities for improvement
Drive initiatives to improve the time to fund and adherence to credit policies across the different business lines
Collaborate with local teams to identify processes that can be centralized and automated to allow us to scale with the goal of bringing all vehicles with payment terms onto one process
Develop policies and guardrails together with the EMEA underwriting team to ensure there are effective and scalable enforcement mechanisms in place if payment terms are breached

What You’ll Bring

Experience managing an operations team in a fast paced environment
A want to quantify and understand processes and team performance
A keen interest in building and improving processes, as well as documenting and mapping these
Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to interact effectively with all levels of management
Ability to work independently with a superior attention to detail
Comfort working in a fast-paced environment and juggling multiple time critical tasks

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