Senior Vice President, Finance of Energy Infrastructure

SOLV Energy is a leading provider of infrastructure services to the power industry designing building and maintaining utility scale solar battery storage and high voltage substation projects nationwide.

Job Description Summary:

SOLV Energys Energy Infrastructure segment brings together five business units (SOLV HV SEHV Robison Waite Electric Spartan Infrastructure and Battery Storage) that together represent SOLVs self-perform high-voltage and specialty electrical construction capability. Several of these units are in an active build phase: 2027 plans call for double-digit revenue growth a meaningfully larger headcount base and new leadership structure across the segment alongside a shift toward direct utility work that carries a different risk and margin profile than the segments historical BESS/PV-adjacent volume. Additionally and as SOLV continues to embark on its M&A strategy it is expected that further growth will come from new acquisitions.

The SVP Finance is the senior finance executive for this segment. This person owns the financial planning oversight and reporting discipline across all five business units; acts as the direct finance partner and challenge function to each BUs operating leader; and through alignment with SOLVs corporate level policies and procedures builds the systems cost structures and controls that let a fast-growing multi-entity segment scale without losing visibility into margin. This is a hands-on build role as much as an oversight role: several of the underlying finance processes (cost coding unit-rate history change order tracking category-level procurement spend) do not yet exist in the form this segment needs and the SVP is expected to take leadership in the implementation of these needs as the coordination point with SOLV parent.

This role is hybrid with regular in-office presence in Mesa AZ with frequent travel to other offices. Specific location details and expectations will be discussed during the interview process.

Job Description:

*This job description reflects managements assignment of essential functions; it does not prescribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned

Position Responsibilities and Duties:

Segment Financial Planning and Oversight

• Own the annual budget and monthly / quarterly forecast cycle for the Energy Infrastructure segment in Planful consolidating five business units into a single segment P&L while preserving BU-level accountability.
• Set and defend top-line OpEx and SG&A targets for each business unit in partnership with corporate FP&A translating BU operating plans (headcount builds new pursuits pipeline conversion) into a financial plan that holds up under scrutiny.
• Build the segments long-range plan including the capital and working-capital implications of shifting mix toward direct-to-utility work which carries different contract structures retainage and payment terms than existing BESS/PV-adjacent work.
• Lead the financial evaluation of new business unit additions to the segment including diligence support and integration planning when SOLV acquires or stands up additional self-perform capability.

Business Unit Partnership

• Serve as the designated finance partner (or lead the finance partners who do) for each of the five BU leaders embedded enough in the operating rhythm to catch margin erosion before it shows up in month-end close.
• Translate each BUs pipeline (signed backlog LNTP-stage work and weighted pursuits) into a revenue and margin forecast that operations procurement and executive leadership can plan against and flag concentration risk when a small number of projects or clients drive an outsized share of forecast revenue.
• Partner with Business Development on pursuit economics go/no-go financial screens and the cost of chasing work outside the segments self-perform fit.
• Support the combined go-to-market packaging of SOLV HV Spartan Infrastructure and Robison Waite Electric as a single self-perform offering including the financial qualification data (bonding capacity financial statements project references) utility customers require for Approved Vendor List status.

Reporting Controls & Cost Structure

• Design and enforce a cost coding structure suited to high-voltage and self-perform electrical scopes (civil structural steel equipment setting above-grade electrical protection and control terminations and testing/commissioning) that produces real unit rates rather than cost history too course to estimate from.
• Build the closed loop between as-built cost and the estimating database: installed unit costs by equipment type and voltage class labor hours by task benchmarked across completed jobs and shared back into precon.
• Own quantity-based earned value reporting with defined rules of credit so the field and the office are working from the same definition of percent complete.
• In alignment with SOLVs policies and in coordination with project controls ensure change order and claims discipline across the segment: pending approved and unapproved change tracked and aged separately with schedule impact quantified alongside cost impact; this is one of the largest drivers of margin leakage in HV and specialty electrical work.
• Deliver monthly leading-indicator reporting (buyout gap against estimate productivity trend against baseline unapproved change exposure contingency burn) rather than after-the-fact reporting at 90% complete.
• Ensure segment-level compliance with SOLVs corporate accounting policies internal controls and external audit requirements including timely accurate consolidated close.

Systems Data & Process

• Serve as the segments executive sponsor for financial systems including Planful (FP&A) and the segments estimating and job-costing tools ensuring these systems talk to each other rather than requiring manual reconciliation.
• Partner with sales operations and BD to get the segments pipeline properly represented in Dynamics/Power BI replacing the manual estimator-log-based pipeline tracking several BUs currently rely on.
• Identify procurement and category-spend consolidation opportunities across the five business units where overlapping spend on transformers breakers switchgear and steel is currently being bought separately.

Team Leadership

• Build and lead the finance team supporting the Energy Infrastructure segment including BU-aligned finance partners FP&A analysts and project accounting.
• Be the key liaison for SOLVs operational shared services including project controls and ensure adherence to company standards reporting discipline and PSR review process
• Set the standard for how finance shows up inside the business units: as an embedded partner who understands substation and self-perform electrical economics not a reporting function operating one layer removed from operations.
• Develop succession and career paths within the finance organization as the segment scales headcount alongside the business units it supports.

Minimum Skills or Experience Requirements:

• 20 years of progressive finance leadership experience including significant time in construction EPC industrial services or specialty contracting: businesses with project-based revenue recognition percentage-of-completion accounting and job costing.
• 5 years in a senior finance leadership role (VP SVP or CFO) with P&L accountability across multiple business units or a multi-entity segment.
• Demonstrated experience building or materially improving project controls cost coding and earned-value processes in a construction or field-services environment not just consuming them as a finance leader.
• Experience partnering directly with operations and business development leaders on pursuit economics contract structuring and margin management not solely with other finance functions.
• Bachelors degree in Finance Accounting or a related field; CPA CMA or MBA preferred.
• Working fluency with FP&A platforms (Planful or comparable) and job-costing/estimating systems.

Preferred

• Direct experience in electrical transmission and distribution substation high-voltage or utility-facing construction: familiarity with LNTP-to-signed contract progression AVL qualification processes and utility procurement cycles.
• Experience standing up or scaling finance functions for a business in active growth or restructuring including building teams and processes from a partially-developed starting point.
• Prior exposure to renewable energy (solar/PV BESS) adjacent markets and an understanding of how ITC/PTC policy cycles affect demand relative to utility capital spending.
• Experience supporting M&A integration for a self-perform construction platform.

Leadership Competencies

• Operates as a builder not just a steward: comfortable designing a process that does not yet exist rather than only reporting on the gap.
• Translates field and estimating detail into executive-level financial narrative fluently in both directions.
• Holds a high standard for data quality and pushes back on decisions made without it while staying pragmatic about what can realistically be built in year one versus year three.
• Builds trust with operating leaders who are skeptical of finance as an outside function by being specific accurate and useful rather than procedural.

What Success Looks Like in the First Year

• A consolidated Energy Infrastructure segment budget and forecast in Planful that BU leaders trust and use rather than maintaining shadow numbers of their own.
• A cost coding and unit-rate structure in place for at least the segments highest-volume business unit with a documented plan to extend it across the remaining four.
• Monthly leading-indicator reporting live for the segments largest projects catching margin risk before month-end close rather than after it.
• A finance partner model fully staffed and embedded with each of the five BU leaders.
• A clear data-backed view of pipeline concentration and client concentration risk across the segment briefed to executive leadership on a regular cadence.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without requiring employer sponsorship now or in the future.

SOLV Energy Is an Equal Opportunity Employer

At SOLV Energy we celebrate the power of our differences. We are committed to building diverse equitable and inclusive workplaces that improve our communities. SOLV Energy prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind against an employee or applicant based on race color age religion sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression marital status national origin or ethnicity mental or physical disability veteran status parental status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Compensation Range:

$263158.00 - $350000.00

Pay Rate Type:

Salary

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Job Number: J14030

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Required Experience:

Senior Exec