Senior Vice President, Finance of Energy Infrastructure

About the job

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 Energy's Energy Infrastructure segment brings together five business units (SOLV HV, SEHV, Robison Waite Electric, Spartan Infrastructure, and Battery Storage) that together represent SOLV's 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 segment's 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 BU's operating leader; and, through alignment with SOLV’s 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 management’s 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 segment's 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 BU's 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 segment's 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 SOLV’s 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 SOLV's corporate accounting policies, internal controls, and external audit requirements, including timely, accurate consolidated close.
• Systems, Data & Process
• Serve as the segment's executive sponsor for financial systems, including Planful (FP&A), and the segment's 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 segment's 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 SOLV’s 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.
• Bachelor's 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 segment's highest-volume business unit, with a documented plan to extend it across the remaining four.
• Monthly leading-indicator reporting live for the segment's 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:
$263,158.00 - $350,000.00
Pay Rate Type:
Salary

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Job Number: J14030

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