Vice President Utility Jobs in Silver Spring, MD

Strategic Business Partner & Transformation Leader

Shape the financial and operational strategy behind one of Leidos' five growth pillars under the NorthStar 2030 Strategy. As Vice President, Leidos Energy CFO, you will serve as the senior F&BO executive for a ~$1.3B business with ambitions to exceed $2B in the next few years. As a core member of the Energy Leadership Team, you will partner directly with the Business Area SVP to shape growth strategy - both organic and inorganic - investment decisions, operating performance, and the capabilities required to scale the business.

At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people, guided by a commitment to doing right by our customers, our people, and our communities.

Leidos Energy is an ENR top ranked energy engineering provider to a broad range of investor-owned utilities, coop utilities, energy project investors and developers, power generators, and well-known industrial clients. Our commercial services include electric and gas transmission and distribution (T&D); generation, investor, and developer consulting and analysis; energy efficiency facility engineering; utility energy efficiency program design and implementation; digital utility services; communication system engineering; and project management across a broad range of energy related projects.

Based in Reston, Virginia, this role sits at the intersection of Leidos' deep government-market expertise and a rapidly evolving energy and infrastructure market - a distinctive opportunity for finance and operations executives from government contracting backgrounds to expand into a growth-oriented commercial energy business, without leaving the broader Leidos ecosystem.

This is not a traditional finance leadership role. We are seeking an enterprise business leader who happens to bring exceptional financial and operational depth. The VP, Leidos Energy CFO will lead financial planning and analysis, business operations, performance management, strategic planning, pricing oversight and strategy, and the cash management function, while modernizing the F&BO operating model through advanced analytics, automation, and responsible adoption of AI to improve forecast accuracy, management insight, decision speed, and organizational productivity.

The ideal candidate is a business-minded leader with strong financial acumen, operational instincts, executive presence, and a proven ability to influence outcomes across a complex organization. They must be able to translate data into insight, insight into action, and action into results.

Reporting Relationship: The VP serves as a core member of the Energy Leadership Team and principal business partner to the Energy Business Area SVP, with direct reporting to the Homeland Sector CFO. This leader will oversee a Finance & Business Operations organization of approximately 100 professionals spanning Program Finance/Project Controls, FP&A, and cash management, with a dotted-line relationship to Accounting, which reports directly into the Corporate Controller's Office.

• Enterprise-visible leadership role tied to a strategic Leidos growth pillar
• Opportunity to help shape a $1.3B $2B+ growth journey
• A career pathway that blends energy, infrastructure, technology, and government-market capabilities
• Ability to build a next-generation F&BO organization and leave an enterprise-wide leadership legacy

• Serve as the principal advisor to the Energy Business Area SVP on strategy, business performance, resource allocation, and value creation
• Help lead the business through its next phase of growth, supporting the path from $1.3B to $2B+
• As a senior leader within Energy, drive the business's strategy to pursue growth, create shareholder value, and improve operational excellence
• Identify and help lead inorganic growth opportunities - including M&A, joint ventures, and other portfolio-shaping activity - as a complement to Energy's organic growth strategy
• Lead all aspects of financial planning, forecasting, performance management, strategic analysis, and related communications
• Establish a scalable operating rhythm that drives accountability, execution, and business performance
• Partner with Operations, Growth, Business Development, Technology, and Program leaders to maximize growth and profitability
• Modernize the F&BO operating model through advanced analytics, automation, and responsible adoption of AI, improving forecast accuracy, management insight, and decision speed
• Deliver clear, actionable insights and compelling business narratives that support executive decision-making
• Lead and develop a high-performing Finance & Business Operations organization
• Foster a culture of accountability, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Exemplify Leidos values of integrity, inclusion, innovation, agility, collaboration, and commitment
• Ensure strong financial controls and governance across the business, partnering with Accounting and the Corporate Controller's Office on internal controls and compliance with IRS, SEC, and other applicable regulatory requirements
• Set pricing strategy and provide oversight and governance across the Energy business, partnering with Program Management on execution

Within the first 24-36 months, this leader will:

• Help scale the Energy business from approximately $1.3B toward $2B in annual revenue
• Establish Finance & Business Operations as a strategic competitive advantage
• Build an AI-enabled operating model that improves decision speed, insight quality, and business performance
• Strengthen accountability, operational execution, and performance management across the organization
• Establish themselves as a trusted advisor to the Energy Business Area SVP, Energy Leadership Team, and Corporate leadership
• Develop a deep bench of future leaders across Finance & Business Operations
• Position the Energy business as a model for growth, operational excellence, and innovation across Leidos

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, Engineering, or a related discipline
• 15+ years of progressive leadership experience across finance, business operations, strategic planning, or related functions
• Experience leading or supporting large, complex businesses at significant scale, ideally $1B+ in revenue
• Demonstrated experience operating successfully in a matrixed enterprise environment
• Proven track record of driving growth, improving performance, and leading transformation
• Exceptional executive presence, communication skills, and ability to influence senior leaders
• Demonstrated ability to build and communicate data-driven business cases that influence executive decisions
• Experience leading large teams and developing future leaders
• Strong understanding of analytics, automation, and emerging technologies, including AI, and their application to business performance
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with operational execution in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment
• Experience identifying, evaluating, or integrating M&A opportunities, including aligning financial systems, reporting, and operating processes across newly combined businesses

We welcome executives whose experience has been built in energy, utilities, infrastructure, engineering services, government contracting, or similarly complex regulated/project-based businesses. Deep expertise in one environment combined with demonstrated ability to learn and operate across adjacent markets is highly valued.

• MBA, CPA, or equivalent advanced degree
• Experience supporting businesses through periods of significant growth and scale
• Experience implementing AI-enabled operating models, advanced analytics, or digital transformation initiatives

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.