FinOps Manager

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 Fin Ops 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, Dev Ops, 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 Fin Ops strategy, tooling, and governance cadence. The Fin Ops 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 Fin Ops strategy, policies, governance forums, and operating model across Azure, AWS, Heroku, AI-related consumption, and private data centre environments.

Run regular cost governance processes including forecasting, budgeting, optimization tracking, variance analysis, and business reviews in close partnership with Finance.

Administer and improve Fin Ops tooling and data quality, including tagging standards, cost allocation, usage transparency, optimization tracking, and governance workflows across solution families.

Monitor and optimize commercial mechanisms including Azure Reservations, Azure Savings Plans, AWS Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, and other commitment-based cost levers.

Provide visibility, challenge, and practical guidance to solution families so they actively manage infrastructure and AI usage in a cost-effective and accountable manner.

Design and maintain showback and chargeback models with Finance to support transparent and fair cost allocation across products, functions, and solution families.

Identify, prioritize, and track optimization opportunities across compute, storage, database, platform services, Heroku usage, AI consumption, and private infrastructure.

Partner with Engineering, Product, Dev Ops, and Operations teams to embed cost awareness into architecture, delivery, and operational decision-making.

Build dashboards, KPIs, and executive reporting covering spend trends, forecast accuracy, commitment coverage, utilization, realized savings, and key consumption patterns.

Support financial planning processes with robust spend analysis, accrual support, and clear explanations of spend drivers and optimization actions.

Build Fin Ops maturity across the organization by establishing repeatable practices, accountability mechanisms, and a strong network of stakeholders across engineering and product teams.

Skills and Experience Strong experience in Fin Ops, 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.

Strong understanding of reservations, savings plans, reserved instances, enterprise agreements, and other cloud commercial…