Exelon’s CFO joined the Fortune 500 company nearly 20 years ago. Here’s her advice for career longevity at one company

Good morning. Jin Jones, EVP and CFO OF Exelon, with the company 18 years ago, although she originally did not get her attention to becoming the facility giant financing head.

The matter was not until she encouraged her president earlier in her career in the company to appoint a road to become the financial manager of Exelon, which she considered seriously this possibility. “I had two children less than the fourth; I was just happy to be here,” Jones recalls.

But the exercise prompted her to think strategically in her career, and to determine many possible ways for the role of the financial manager. With the care of her teacher, the Comedy Financial Director (Comedy), the largest operating company in Excel, has become the most promoted company and eventually promoted to Exelon’s financial manager in 2022.

Chicago -based Exelon (No. 192 in The Fortune 500), one of the largest facilities in the country, is based on Chicago (No. 192 on Fortune 500), led by CEO Calvin Battler, is more than 10 million customers through six organized transport and distribution facilities. Since power generation yarn, Exelon focused in 2022 on organized facilities operations only – meaning that it does not have power plants, but instead it runs the infrastructure that provides electricity and gas to the final users.

In 2024, Exelon reported revenues of $ 23 billion and net income of $ 2.5 billion, which reflects a significant growth in its organized business. Jones said that the company is closely monitoring – and actively responding – the data center mutation. To ensure the reliability of the network and the ability to withstand costs, Exelon is closely working with state organizers and operating a large -scale scenario to anticipate the amount of the new energy load that will be achieved and when, as shown.

“We are running scenarios about the amount of pregnancy or the amount of new customers’ request to the network,” Jones said. When her team brings 10 scenarios, “I always ask that eleventh,” she added. The company also invests in infrastructure, with a 38 billion dollar capital plan over a period of four years and $ 15 billion for transmission promotions to deal with the increase in the data center.

Fixed educated

Jones began her career as director of scrutiny in the Ey’s Chicago office. In 2007, when an interview in Excel, two things emerged: the company’s culture of recycling talents through the various departments, intelligence and ambition of the people I met.

Jones said: “Everyone I met has done different things,” Jones said. “If they start accounting, they went to financial planning and analysis, then to the cabinet.” She wanted to do the same.

Its time included in Exelon roles in accounting and cabinet – where she worked on mergers and credit analysis – and operations. In addition to working as a financial manager for comed, she was also a deputy for financing for Exelon Nuclear, Finance Director of the EXLON Group joints in the nuclear project, and the head of the Staff in Exalelon, the two -year financial director – an important educational experience. Jones said: “We were going through a hostile seizure of another company that ended up not working,” Jones said.

Jones said every step was driven by the desire to learn something new. It is similar to her experience in learning a foreign language: you can study French in the semester, but if you live in Paris and completely immersed in the language, you are really learning how to speak it. For example, Jones operations gave a completely new perspective.

In thinking about her journey, Jones offers the following job advice: Stay open for new experiences and not be overwhelmed by long goals – and do not let the end -of -the -end goal of your ends in the ride. She said, “Keep walking in the next thing that will get you.”

Sherrill Istra
Sheryl.strada@fortune.com

This story was originally shown on Fortune.com

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2025-06-05 11:46:00