Senior Vice President, Finance of Energy Infrastructure

SOLV Energy•Mesa, AZ

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

SOLV Energy's Energy Infrastructure segment is a critical part of the company, encompassing five business units focused on high-voltage and specialty electrical construction. The segment is undergoing significant growth, with plans for increased revenue, headcount, and a strategic shift towards direct utility work. This growth is also expected to be fueled by acquisitions. The Senior Vice President (SVP), Finance will serve as the senior finance executive for this segment, responsible for financial planning, oversight, and reporting across all business units. This role involves partnering with and challenging operating leaders, establishing robust systems, cost structures, and controls to support scaling operations, and implementing essential finance processes such as cost coding, unit-rate history, and change order tracking. This is a hands-on, build-oriented role requiring close coordination with the SOLV parent company.

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.
Experience partnering directly with operations and business development leaders on pursuit economics, contract structuring, and margin management.
Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field.
Working fluency with FP&A platforms (Planful or comparable) and job-costing/estimating systems.
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without requiring employer sponsorship now or in the future.

Nice To Haves

CPA, CMA, or MBA 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.
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.

Responsibilities

Own the annual budget and monthly/quarterly forecast cycle for the Energy Infrastructure segment, consolidating five business units into a single segment P&L while maintaining 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 into a financial plan.
Build the segment's long-range plan, including capital and working-capital implications of shifting mix toward direct-to-utility work.
Lead the financial evaluation of new business unit additions, including diligence support and integration planning for acquisitions or new stands-ups.
Serve as the designated finance partner for each of the five BU leaders, embedded in the operating rhythm to identify margin erosion.
Translate each BU's pipeline into a revenue and margin forecast and flag concentration risk.
Partner with Business Development on pursuit economics, go/no-go financial screens, and the cost of chasing work.
Support the combined go-to-market packaging of specific business units, including providing financial qualification data for utility customers.
Design and enforce a cost coding structure suited to high-voltage and self-perform electrical scopes.
Build the closed loop between as-built cost and the estimating database.
Own quantity-based earned value reporting with defined rules of credit.
Ensure change order and claims discipline across the segment, tracking pending, approved, and unapproved changes.
Deliver monthly leading-indicator reporting, such as buyout gap against estimate and productivity trend.
Ensure segment-level compliance with SOLV's corporate accounting policies, internal controls, and external audit requirements.
Serve as the segment's executive sponsor for financial systems, including Planful and estimating/job-costing tools.
Partner with sales operations and BD to ensure the segment's pipeline is properly represented in Dynamics/Power BI.
Identify procurement and category-spend consolidation opportunities across the five business units.
Build and lead the finance team supporting the Energy Infrastructure segment.
Be the key liaison for SOLV’s operational shared services, including project controls.
Set the standard for how finance shows up inside the business units as an embedded partner.
Develop succession and career paths within the finance organization.