Managing Director, Corporate Strategy & Development

Job Posting End Date

05-25-2026

Please note the job posting will close on the day before the posting end date.

Job Summary

AEP’s Corporate Strategy & Development team is looking for a Manager to Managing Director who thrives on execution, collaboration, and growth. This high-visibility role will be a leader within the team supporting enterprise strategy, M&A, partnerships, and capital allocation across one of the nation’s largest utilities.

You’ll be trusted to lead transactions and strategy development: overseeing the development of financial models, managing diligence processes, and preparing board-level recommendations that directly shape company strategy. At the same time, you’ll bring humility, eagerness, and a can-do mindset—partnering with teammates, senior leaders, and external advisors to make an impact.

This role is designed for an experienced professional that is ready to combine strong technical skills with curiosity, teamwork, and a drive to keep learning.

Job Description

What You’ll Do

• Lead Transactions and Own Workstreams: Manage and oversee due diligence across financial, regulatory, and operational areas with accountability for quality and timeliness. Arrange due diligence meetings with all support departments and work with individual departments to identify and resolve due diligence issues. Prioritize competing opportunities and maintain a pipeline of potential deals so that internal stakeholders can understand the status of activities.
• Support Strategy Development and Decision-Making: Build concise, compelling presentations for executives and the Board that cut through complexity. Monitor, research and socialize threats and opportunities in the marketplace and provide recommendations to senior leaders regarding strategies and commercial structures that AEP should consider pursuing.
• Deliver Results: Lead financial modeling, valuation, and analysis to support strategic initiatives, transactions, and investments.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner with colleagues across finance, operations, regulatory, and external advisors; contribute to a high-trust, high-performance culture.
• Mentor & Learn: Guide junior analysts while also seeking feedback, asking questions, and stretching into new responsibilities. Create a culture of transacting within the strategy and development team with projects that adequately mitigate risks while capturing upside. Lead by example in the search, review, negotiation, and closing of transactions.
• Stay Tech-Savvy: Use tools, data, and technology (Excel, PowerPoint, Macabacus, financial platforms, visualization tools) to improve accuracy, insights, and efficiency.

What We're Looking For:

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, business, or economics.

Experience:

• A minimum of 10 years of financial modeling, business valuation and utility industry experience.
• Demonstrated leading financings, mergers and acquisition processes, or other complex financial projects is required

Other Must Haves:

• Energy/utilities background is preferred.
• MBA or graduate degree in finance/economics. CFA and/or CPA is preferred
• Strong business acumen with advanced financial modeling and valuation skills.
• Clear, confident communicator—capable of simplifying complexity for executives.
• Humble, team-oriented, and collaborative; thrives on shared success.
• Eager, resilient, and resourceful—able to navigate ambiguity with a can-do attitude.
• Tech-savvy and comfortable learning new tools and systems quickly.
• High attention to detail, ownership of results, and follow-through.

Why Join Us

• Execution today, growth tomorrow: Build your skills and reputation by owning critical workstreams.
• Team-driven environment: Work in a collaborative culture where humility, curiosity, and drive are as valued as technical skills.
• Exposure & impact: Shape strategy and transactions at the highest levels of a Fortune 500 company.
• Purposeful work: Play a critical role in helping AEP finance, prioritize, and execute its $72bn+ capital plan, enabling the development of new, reliable generation, transmission, and distribution infrastructure across AEP’s 11‑state footprint.

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