Energy Cash Management Director

Leidos

1d • $130,000 - $235,000

About The Position

The Energy Cash Management Director is a senior leadership role within Leidos' Cash Management organization. The director leads an approximately 40-person team responsible for cash generation, billing production, and working capital performance across the Energy Business Area's high-volume invoicing operations. The environment supports utility engineering services and time-and-materials (T&M) or Fixed Fee projects.

The role requires a strong understanding of production dynamics, shared service operations, and the procure-to-pay and contract-to-cash lifecycles, as well as process reengineering and change management. The director manages the organization through clearly defined KPIs and data-driven accountability, with the aim of improving billing throughput and accuracy. A central responsibility is developing and executing a strategy to embed automation and AI across invoicing, reducing manual work, accelerating cycle times, and improving the quality and consistency of invoice production.

The director also contributes to enterprise-level planning, developing an operational understanding of how Cash Management and performing groups can optimize and maintain Leidos' cash generation and liquidity profile.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and at least 8 years of related experience in Accounting, Finance, or Business Management, with an emphasis on cash management support.
• Demonstrated experience managing high volumes of invoices in a production or shared-services billing environment.
• Proven ability to manage teams and processes using KPIs and metrics to drive decisions, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Experience driving automation and/or AI adoption in invoicing, billing, or broader finance operations.
• Excellent organizational skills and demonstrated ability to meet on-time deliverables.
• Strong communication skills across all levels of the organization, including senior leadership.
• Demonstrated competencies in change management facilitation and team collaboration.
• Leadership experience emphasizing talent development and retention.
• Results-oriented approach, strong problem-solving skills, and aptitude for influencing outside one's immediate span of control.
• Proficiency in Deltek Vantagepoint.

Nice To Haves

• Experience implementing AI-enabled or automated invoicing/billing tools in a large-scale, high-volume environment.
• Background in the energy or utilities sector, or experience with T&M contract structures.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Line and Functional organizations to improve processes, meet established service levels and quarterly cash targets, and develop high-performing individuals along career paths that support current and future placement.
• Own and report on a KPI-driven management framework for high-volume invoicing, including invoice throughput, cycle time, aging, error and rework rates, Day to Invoice (DTI), and Days Sales Outstanding (DSO).
• Define and execute a strategy that uses AI and automation across invoice generation, validation, exception handling, and collections support.
• Lead a high-volume invoicing operation supporting utility engineering services and T&M or Fixed Fee projects, ensuring accuracy and timeliness at scale.
• Create integration plans and/or directly manage tasking coming into Cash Management as a result of process enhancements or organizational change.
• Manage Cash Management's role in transformational opportunities and review processes and workflows for continuous improvement across Cash Management teams.
• Backfill onsite management for a large service organization as needed.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director