Energy Cash Management Director

Overview

This senior leadership role within the organization’s Cash Management function is responsible for driving cash generation, billing production, and working capital performance across the Energy Business Area’s high-volume invoicing operations. The position leads an approximately 40-person team in a high-transaction, transaction-heavy environment involving utility engineering services and time-and-materials (T&M) or Fixed Fee projects.

The role focuses on establishing KPI-driven management, improving billing throughput and accuracy, and building a forward-looking strategy that embeds automation and AI across the invoicing process to reduce manual touchpoints, accelerate cycle times, and improve quality and consistency in large-scale invoice production.

This position also contributes to enterprise-level planning by developing a conceptual and operational understanding of how Cash Management and performing groups work together to optimize and maintain cash generation and liquidity.

Responsibilities

• Partner with line and functional organizations to proactively improve existing processes while achieving established service levels and quarterly cash targets, with an emphasis on growing high-performing individuals through a career path that supports current and future placement.
• Own and report on a KPI-driven management framework for a high-volume invoicing operation, including metrics such as invoice throughput, cycle time, aging, error/rework rates, Day to invoice (DTI), and Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) to drive performance, transparency, and continuous improvement.
• Define and execute a forward-looking strategy leveraging AI and automation to transform the invoicing process—from invoice generation and validation through exception handling and collections support.
• Lead a highly transactional, volume-based business supporting utility engineering services, ensuring accuracy and timeliness at scale for high volumes of T&M or Fixed Fee projects.
• Create integration plans and/or directly manage tasking that comes into Cash Management as a result of process enhancements or organizational change.
• Lead Cash Management’s role in transformational opportunities by reviewing processes and workflows for continuous improvement across all teams within Cash Management; backfill onsite management for a large service organization as needed.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 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 within a production or shared-services billing environment.
• Proven track record of managing teams and processes through KPIs, using metrics to drive decisions, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Experience driving automation and/or AI adoption within invoicing, billing, or broader finance operations.
• Excellent organizational skills with a 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 with strong problem-solving skills and an ability to influence beyond one’s immediate span of control.
• Proficiency in Deltek Vantagepoint.

Preferred Qualifications

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

Compensation & Benefits

• Pay Range: $130,000.00 - $235,000.00
• The pay range is a general guideline and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Factors considered include responsibilities, education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

Benefits include:

• Competitive compensation
• Health and Wellness programs
• Income Protection
• Paid Leave
• Retirement

Location

Remote