FinOps: Chief Financial Officer at Cloud IT
Control and optimization of cloud costs ➡️
Control and optimization of cloud costs ➡️
📘 Online recording course by Mike Pritula
⏰ Classes are posted once a week with homework, 6 classes in total
🗂 Homework check
📄 Diploma after the course
⏰ Classes are posted once a week with homework, 6 classes in total
🗂 Homework check
📄 Diploma after the course
FinOps is not about saving money "at any cost."
It's about transparency, manageability, and accountability for IT and cloud costs.
In this course, you will master FinOps as a profession: learn how to analyze cloud bills, allocate costs between teams and products, find areas for optimization, build clear dashboards for business, and implement FinOps in your company from scratch.
No theory for theory's sake.
With templates, checklists, and practices used by CTOs, CFOs, and FinOps specialists in real companies.
Watch the lesson → grab the tool → apply it at work.
It's about transparency, manageability, and accountability for IT and cloud costs.
In this course, you will master FinOps as a profession: learn how to analyze cloud bills, allocate costs between teams and products, find areas for optimization, build clear dashboards for business, and implement FinOps in your company from scratch.
No theory for theory's sake.
With templates, checklists, and practices used by CTOs, CFOs, and FinOps specialists in real companies.
Watch the lesson → grab the tool → apply it at work.
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Why you should take the Cloud Financial Operations course
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Who is this course for?- For FinOps specialists and Cloud Cost Managers who want to systematize their approach.
- For CFOs and Finance Business Partners working with IT and cloud budgets.
- For CTOs, Heads of Engineering, and Tech Leads responsible for infrastructure efficiency.
- For Product Managers who influence unit economics and feature costs
- For those who already see growth in cloud bills but don't understand where and why
- For professionals who want to master FinOps as a profession, not just as a "one-time cost reduction"
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What you will learn to do- Read and break down AWS/Azure/GCP cloud bills
- Build cost allocation, showback, and chargeback models
- Find optimization points without harming the business or product
- Manage shared costs and distributed infrastructures
- Create FinOps dashboards for CTOs, CFOs, and top management
- Link costs to value: cost → usage → value
- Launch and scale FinOps processes in the company
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What you will receive- 6 practical 45-minute webinars
- Ready-made templates, checklists, and FinOps models
- Real-life cases of cloud cost optimization
- Understanding where savings strengthen the business and where they break the product
- A 30–60–90-day FinOps implementation roadmap
- Homework checks and feedback
- A certificate of course completion
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Difference from other courses- Focus on business results, not "cloud tools"
- FinOps as a management system, not a one-time optimization
- The connection between finance, technology, and product, not isolated IT
- Practice instead of theory: took → implemented → got results
- Mike Pritula's approach: transparency, accountability, and scalability, not manual cost management
FinOps Course Program
📘 Online recording course by Mike Pritula
⏰ Classes are posted once a week with homework, 6 classes in total
🗂 Homework check
📄 Diploma after the course
⏰ Classes are posted once a week with homework, 6 classes in total
🗂 Homework check
📄 Diploma after the course
- 🟢 Recorded class📘 LESSON 1. FinOps as a profession and cost management system
- What is FinOps and why clouds eat up budgets without it?
- FinOps ≠ finance, ≠ DevOps, ≠ IT — an area of overlap and conflict.
- Typical business pain points: "bills are up, but we're not seeing the value."
- Roles in FinOps: Engineering, Finance, Product, Procurement
- FinOps maturity model: Crawl → Walk → Run
- FinOps KPIs: what they are actually responsible for and how they evaluate effectiveness
- Practice: checklist "Is the company ready to implement FinOps?"
- 🟢 Recorded class📘 LESSON 2. Cost structure: how to read and analyze cloud bills
- Typical AWS/Azure/GCP cost structure
- Compute, Storage, Network, Managed Services — where most of the money goes
- Why bills are hard to understand and how to make them more human-friendly
- Shared costs and hidden expenses
- Tags, accounts, projects, cost centers — basic accounting architecture
- Practice: cloud bill decomposition template for business
- 🟢 Recorded class📘 LESSON 3. Cost Allocation and Chargeback: Who Pays for What
- Why businesses need chargeback/showback
- Cost allocation models: by product, team, user
- Mandatory tags: what you really need and what you don't
- Tagging errors and how to fix them
- How to avoid turning FinOps into a "financial police force"
- Practice: cost allocation model template + tagging policy
- 🟢 Recorded class📘 LESSON 4. Cost optimization: where and how to save money without harming your business
- Compute optimization: rightsizing, autoscaling, idle resources
- Storage optimization: storage classes, lifecycle policies
- Reserved instances, savings plans, commitments — when and for whom they are beneficial
- Dev/Test environments as the main source of overspending
- Financial impact vs. technical risks
- Practice: checklist of quick FinOps wins for 30–60 days
- 🟢 Recorded class📘 LESSON 5. FinOps analytics and dashboards for business
- What metrics does FinOps really need?
- Cost vs. Usage vs. Value
- Unit economics in the cloud (cost per user/feature/transaction)
- Financial dashboards for CTOs, CFOs, and Product Managers
- Common analytics mistakes: vanity metrics and reports for the sake of reports
- Practice: FinOps dashboard structure for top management
- 🟢 Recorded class📘 LESSON 6. Implementing FinOps in a company and the career path of a FinOps specialist
- How to launch FinOps from scratch in a company
- FinOps rhythms: monthly, quarterly, and annual cycles
- Conflict-free communication with Dev, Product, and Finance
- Typical resistance and how to overcome it
- Roles and salaries: FinOps Analyst, FinOps Manager, Cloud Cost Lead
- Practice: 90-day FinOps implementation roadmap + role profile
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You watch the recorded sessions at your own pace and study the material. We open 1 lesson per week
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Homework with verification by the course author
Each webinar has a practical task that you must do to get a diploma
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Students who successfully complete the course assignments will receive a diploma at the end of the course
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- Founder of Mike Pritula Academy and PapaHR AI software
- Built Preply's HR system on its way to a $1.2 billion valuation
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- 20 years in HR at Wargaming, Preply, iDeals, Starlightmedia, Alfa-Bank, and PeopleForce
- Implemented over 50 HR projects
- Formed 4 HR teams in different businesses
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- Engaged in online training since 2010
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What you will gain from the course about FinOps role
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Intensive course workOn the course you are not a passive listener, but actively participate in online chat during the class, in Telegram chat between classes, as well as practicing all the knowledge gained and get feedback from the author of the course -
ToolsYou will get a large variety of proven tools that the author has tested in a wide variety of companies, many of which were developed personally, as well as examples from top companies -
Ready-made solutionsYou will not need to develop all the solutions yourself. You will immediately receive ready-made solutions based on the "Take and Do" principle. Your task will only be to adapt all the tools you receive to your company -
ExamplesWe'll have plenty of examples and case studies from companies in a wide variety of industries on how they solved business challenges with HR tools. You will surely find many ideas for yourself -
HomeworkIn your homework assignments, you will customize all the tools and solutions for your business, and the course author will personally check how you did. -
Private chatAll students are added to a closed Telegram chat where they can ask questions and get help, share experiences, find like-minded people and friends.
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Training on the course: recorded classes, practice and support
All resources: webinar recordings, presentations, supplementary materials, are stored in your personal account.
For communication and support, all participants communicate in a dedicated Telegram chat room.
For communication and support, all participants communicate in a dedicated Telegram chat room.
❓ Frequently asked questions (Q&A)
FinOps is a methodology for managing cloud and IT costs that helps companies control cloud bills, allocate expenses between teams, and link costs to business results.
FinOps is a way to understand who pays for what in the cloud, why bills are increasing, and how to manage these expenses systematically rather than through one-off reductions.
A FinOps specialist is someone who manages a company's cloud costs: they analyze bills, set up cost allocation, help teams optimize spending, and explain the figures to the business.
A FinOps specialist analyzes cloud accounts, configures tags and cost allocation, builds dashboards, looks for optimization points, and establishes processes for accountability for expenses.
To become a FinOps specialist, you need to understand the structure of cloud costs, the basics of IT finance, the principles of cost allocation, and optimization practices. This course provides a systematic foundation and practical tools to get you started in the profession.
The salary of a FinOps specialist depends on the country and experience, but on average, FinOps roles are paid at the level of senior IT/finance specialists, as they directly impact cost reduction and financial efficiency of the business.
DevOps is responsible for stability and speed of development, while FinOps is responsible for the financial efficiency of the cloud. FinOps Engineer is a more technical role, while FinOps can be an analyst, manager, or business partner.
Controlling cloud spending starts with the right account structure, resource tagging, transparent cost allocation, and regular analysis of usage and costs—this is the foundation of FinOps.
Costs are rising due to unused resources, incorrect server sizes, lack of autoscaling, chaotic environment launches, and teams not being accountable for consumption.
Cost reduction begins with rightsizing, disabling idle resources, and optimizing storage and dev/test environments. FinOps allows you to do this systematically, rather than "cutting everything across the board."
Cost allocation is the distribution of cloud costs among teams, products, or projects so that it is clear who is consuming resources and what they are paying for.
Showback is the display of costs to teams without direct debiting, while chargeback is the actual distribution of expenses across budgets. Both approaches are used in FinOps to increase accountability.
Yes. Even small companies quickly lose control of their cloud spending. FinOps helps you get organized before your bills become a problem.
A course on FinOps as a management and financial system. Approaches applicable to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud regardless of provider.
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