A Day in the Life of a Tesla Financial Analyst (Bay Area)

Day in the life as a Tesla Financial Analyst (North America & Pacific Sales and Service Infrastructure Finance) in the California Bay Area. Walk through a detailed breakdown of a financial analyst's typical workday featuring team meetings, modeling projects, report creation, and other important analyst tasks.

Note: Financial Analysts at Tesla are also sometimes called FP&A Business Operations Analysts.

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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Intro
0:17 - Role Details
1:20 - Morning Routine
2:30 - Team Meeting
3:10 - Project Work
4:21 - Lunch
4:43 - Real Estate Project Work
5:58 - 1x1 Meeting with Manager
6:17 - Spend Request Approvals
7:11 - Dinner & Gym
7:22 - Leftover Work
8:06 - Wind Down & Relax

Disclaimer: No real internal Tesla figures or materials were shown in this video. The content captured in this video is based on my previous experience as a full-time FP&A Business Operations analyst at Tesla.

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[chriswalter]

Private equity sounds like a mechanism that extracts the most amount of value from a business, and transfers that wealth to the few general partners.
Everyone loses - the business, the employees, the local consumers, the tax payers.... except for the general partners

[ronnies.]

Great video - thanks for the day in the life of a FA @ Tesla. I recently graduated with a Math degree and hoping to get into this field. Quite a pivot, but it's where my post-grad interest lies. Appreciate the insight.

[mohsinbaig]

In love with your videos 💜🌸
Keep shining! ✨

[sierra]

This is fantastic. I'm an old duffer, and we had nothing like the info contained in this video when I was starting my career. Incredibly high-value!!!! 🔥

[davidbaker]

Great to see a day in the life of a FA like myself.

[tarelakentebe]

Great video. My day is similar, looking at moving into FP&A in the future. side note: going back to work after dinner and gym, I could never!

[georgeochieng]

Great stuff. Surprised by the spend approval function as part of your role.

[YanBrassard]

I would never be able to be a Financial Analyst. I start at 8:30AM, finish at 4:30PM and I take an hour break at noon and two 15 min breaks throughout the day (morning & afternoon). At 4:30PM I'm already tired of work. lol

[brandonjim]

goodness i could never do what you did ! that’s crazy hard work

[homegardeningforkids]

I really enjoyed watching this. You told a story about your life, while simultaneously including your work schedule.

- Future analysts

[darksunrise]

Awesome walkthrough. Most accounts don’t go this in depth so this was super informative.

[sa]

Besides the awesome details and explanations of the routines, I was just impressed by the video skills and effort. I need to start with learning how to make videos like that! What tools/software you used for this?

[mnarmohamed]

just watching ur day made me feel tired 😂. Awesome video

[JG_Vietnam]

He sounds like he was taking the IELTS speaking test lol. Love his accent!

[spikeydude]

Great video! How do you tackle one off high ticket expenditures? So for example if one property had to do a one time refurbish due to hail damage? Now you have one month that is much higher than the rest ... how do you deal with that variance?

[berkan]

Great video. Are you working with only Excel for data cleaning or using another programming languages such as python etc ?

[gamerswarehousez]

Very useful video thanks for inside! Btw do you know if people can land a Financial Analyst job by doing online certificates from Coursera and Udemy and maybe Google Certificates? Or a Master's Degree is a must to get a job in this role?

[ripyears]

Was the predictive model for the new service location 2sls?

[gamingvault]

I'm currently looking into getting into the Financial Analyst Field. It has always been a dream of mine to work for Tesla. I have always found everything numbers related easy to come to me, which is what has brought me here. Just wondering if you have any recommendations on where to start on a career with Tesla.

[Gbb]

Michael, do you feel like Financial analysts typically pertain to a specific personality type? Or do you feel like it varies between highly introverted and extroverted, etc?