Corporate Finance Internship
Key Skills
Job Description
What To Expect Start date: January 2027 Location: Amsterdam Duration: 6 months Time type: Full-time (40h a week) Please note that you have to be enrolled in your education throughout the whole internship period Tesla’s Finance team combines traditional financial planning and analysis with broader business decision-making and strategy. Finance is embedded in daily operations, supporting both near-term execution and long-term planning. Team members are expected to analyze data, provide recommendations, and lead cross-functional decision-making and implementation of the recommendations with the relevant executives/teams throughout the company. Through the intern program, we are looking to find the next wave of talent to drive these efforts. Tesla Finance is lean and dynamic, comprised of four main subgroups: Energy Finance, Engineering Finance, Manufacturing Finance, and Sales Finance. A position is available at our EMEA headquarters in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, to grow our EMEA-based Sales Finance team. Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) works with our Finance and Business leadership team, and other subgroups to: Lead Tesla’s P&L, balance sheet and cash flow forecast process, including reviewing with Tesla’s Leadership and Board of Directors and working with finance and non-finance stakeholders to analyze the impact of proposed business decisions Develop and track cross-company efforts to improve gross margin and cash flow Lead long term planning for Tesla, including new products/capabilities, and capital need Sales, Marketing and Service (SMS) Finance works with the Sales, Service and Marketing teams to: Manage investments into SMS activities Develop associated forecasts, and lead profitability analysis/improvement initiatives at the global and regional level Lead pricing efforts, including options and services, and business planning for retail, service and sales enablement Develop and evaluate ROI for new markets, new business models, used vehicles, and service What You'll Do Review spend requests from business operations to support with cost reduction efforts Provide timely financial reporting to leadership and highlight key findings Analyze business KPIs and financial metrics for the weekly finance review (e.g. pricing and sales program performance, delivery cost evolution, marketing spend efficiency) Develop excel models with automated SQL queries for recurring analysis needs Build and maintain automated reporting tools (Python automations, Streamlit apps, and HTML dashboards powered by SQL queries) using AI coding assistants What You'll Bring Pursuing a degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, Data Science or another quantitative field Evidence of good ability, especially within an ambiguous and fast paced environment A robust analytical skill-set Excellent modeling skills (Microsoft Office Excel is mandatory; experience with SQL is a plus) Experience using AI tools (e.g. Claude, ChatGPT, Grok) in a work environment to develop Python automations and dashboards is preferred, but not required Independent, critical thinker who questions and investigates results, including AI output, rather than taking them at face value; detail-oriented and execution focused Level C1 in English (Strong verbal, written and presentation skills) Highly collaborative and team-oriented , Tesla
Core Responsibilities
Review business spending requests, provide financial reporting, and analyze business KPIs and financial metrics for recurring finance reviews. Build Excel models and automated reporting tools, including SQL-powered analyses, Python automations, Streamlit apps, and HTML dashboards.
Requirements
Applicants must be pursuing a degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, Data Science, or another quantitative field, and demonstrate strong analytical and modeling skills, including mandatory Excel proficiency. They should be collaborative, detail-oriented, comfortable in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment, and have C1 English; SQL and experience using AI tools to develop Python automations and dashboards are preferred.
About Tesla
Industry: Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
Company size: 10,001+ employees
Tesla is accelerating the world’s transition to sustainable abundance. To achieve our mission, we're building a world powered by solar, enabled by battery storage and transported by electric vehicles. We’re committed to hiring and developing top talent from around the world for any given discipline. Headquartered in Texas, we operate six huge, vertically integrated factories across three continents. With over 100,000 employees, our teams take a first-principles approach to designing, building, selling and servicing our products in-house. Our world-class teams operate with a non-conventional philosophy of inter-disciplinary collaboration. Each member of the team is expected to challenge and to be challenged, to create, and to innovate. We’re tackling the world’s most difficult and important problems—and we wouldn’t succeed without our shared passion for making the world a better place.