Description
The Energy Cash Management Director is a senior leadership role within Leidos' Cash Management organisation, responsible for driving cash generation, billing production, and working capital performance across the Energy Business Area's high-volume invoicing operations.
This position leads a ~40-person team through a demanding, transaction-heavy environment characterised by high volumes of invoices tied to utility engineering services and time-and-materials (T&M) or Fixed Fee projects.
The ideal candidate brings a deep understanding of production dynamics, shared service operations, and the full “procure to pay” and “contract to cash” lifecycles, paired with strong process reengineering and change management fundamentals.
Primary Responsibilities
- As a senior leader within a dynamic organisation, partner with the Line/Functional organisations to proactively improve existing processes while achieving established service levels and quarterly cash targets, with an emphasis on growing high-performing individuals along a career path that supports current and future placement.
- Own and report on a KPI-driven management framework for a high-volume invoicing operation , covering 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 across the team.
- Define and execute a forward-looking strategy that leverages 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 with a high volume of time-and-materials (T&M) or Fixed Fee projects, ensuring accuracy and timeliness at scale.
- Create integration plans and/or directly manage tasking that comes into Cash Management as a result of process enhancement, or organisational change.
- Manage Cash Management's role in transformational opportunities, reviewing processes and workflow for continuous improvement across all teams within Cash Management, and backfilling onsite management for a large service organisation 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 organisational skills with a demonstrated ability to meet on-time deliverables.
- Strong communication skills across all levels of the organisation, including senior leadership.
- Demonstrated competencies in change management facilitation and team collaboration.
- Leadership experience with an emphasis on talent development and retention.
- Results-oriented, with strong problem-solving skills and an aptitude for influencing outside 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.
The salary range for this position is $130,000.00 - $235,000.00.