FinOps Manager
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Occupation TypeDirectors in consultancy services
Occupation Code Skill LevelMedium Skilled
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£70,100
(£35.95 per hour)
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Description
Sphera is a leading global provider of enterprise software and services that enables companies to manage and optimize their environmental, health, safety and sustainability. Our mission is to create a safer, more sustainable and productive world.
Sphera is a portfolio company of Blackstone, a U.S.-based alternative asset investment company that focuses on private equity, technology and innovation, and more. Blackstone businesses succeed through strong partnerships, a personalized approach and a commitment to exceptional performance with uncompromising integrity. Sphera and Blackstone are leaders in the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) space.
We are guided by our core values of Customer Centricity, Accountability, Bias to Action, Innovation, and Collaboration. These values help us recruit the right talent to join our rapidly expanding team of around the globe. It is important to us that each and every Spherion is not only eager to challenge themselves and knows how to get work done but is an awesome addition to our company culture.
The FinOps Manager will drive financial accountability and cost optimization across Sphera’s technology estate, covering Azure, AWS, Heroku, AI usage, and private data centre environments. The role sits at the intersection of Engineering, Product, DevOps, Operations, and Finance, ensuring infrastructure and platform spend is visible, governed, and optimized in line with business value.
This is a hands-on role responsible for operating and refining Sphera’s FinOps strategy, tooling, and governance cadence. The FinOps Manager will help solution families understand their cost drivers, improve usage discipline, optimize reservations and savings plans, and take ownership of actions that reduce waste and improve efficiency across cloud and hybrid environments.
Key Responsibilities
Sphera is a portfolio company of Blackstone, a U.S.-based alternative asset investment company that focuses on private equity, technology and innovation, and more. Blackstone businesses succeed through strong partnerships, a personalized approach and a commitment to exceptional performance with uncompromising integrity. Sphera and Blackstone are leaders in the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) space.
We are guided by our core values of Customer Centricity, Accountability, Bias to Action, Innovation, and Collaboration. These values help us recruit the right talent to join our rapidly expanding team of around the globe. It is important to us that each and every Spherion is not only eager to challenge themselves and knows how to get work done but is an awesome addition to our company culture.
The FinOps Manager will drive financial accountability and cost optimization across Sphera’s technology estate, covering Azure, AWS, Heroku, AI usage, and private data centre environments. The role sits at the intersection of Engineering, Product, DevOps, Operations, and Finance, ensuring infrastructure and platform spend is visible, governed, and optimized in line with business value.
This is a hands-on role responsible for operating and refining Sphera’s FinOps strategy, tooling, and governance cadence. The FinOps Manager will help solution families understand their cost drivers, improve usage discipline, optimize reservations and savings plans, and take ownership of actions that reduce waste and improve efficiency across cloud and hybrid environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Operate and continuously improve Sphera’s FinOps strategy, policies, governance forums, and operating model across Azure, AWS, Heroku, AI-related consumption, and private data centre environments.
- Strong experience in FinOps, cloud cost management, technology financial operations, or a related infrastructure cost governance role.
- Hands-on experience managing spend across Azure and AWS, with familiarity in Heroku and private data centre or hosted infrastructure environments.
- FinOps Certified Practitioner or similar cloud financial management certification.
- Experience in multi-cloud SaaS or product engineering environments.
- Experience managing or governing AI platform or model-related costs.
- Familiarity with data platforms such as Snowflake and Databricks from a cost and consumption perspective.
- Familiarity with CI/CD, cloud-native architectures, and modern DevOps/SRE practices.
- Experience defining FinOps KPIs, governance forums, and accountability models across decentralized engineering organizations.
- Experience using Azure DevOps or Jira to track optimization actions through delivery backlogs.
- Improved visibility and accountability for infrastructure and AI spend across solution families.
- Increased utilization and effectiveness of reservations, savings plans, and other commitment strategies.
This job description is intended to convey information essential to understanding the scope of the job and the general nature and level of work performed by job holders within this job. This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of qualifications, skills, efforts, duties, responsibilities or working conditions associated with the position.