Numbers your board can trust. Every time.
We design, build and support finance systems that give your team faster reporting, stronger controls and numbers you can stand behind.
Built on Microsoft technology, Finance CoreIQ and Calumo.
The challenges we solve
A clearer path forward starts here.
Hear what our existing clients have to say…
“The team at Brydens BI brought together data from multiple internal and external sources. Their finance knowledge and willingness to understand our business made the process easy. They just got on with it. Now our financial and non-financial reporting is consolidated and readily available to use. It’s been transformative. The same team that scoped and implemented the solution still supports us today.”
“We’ve moved from a slow, painful, Excel-heavy annual budget process to a monthly rolling forecast linked directly to our ERP and HR systems. Department heads can review and update their numbers online, and our executives have a dedicated reporting app. By the time we start the annual budget, most of the work is already done.”
“It was refreshing to work with people who understood Finance as well as the technology. Brydens BI quickly grasped our accounting requirements, found practical ways to automate the work and delivered a solution that fit our business without consuming all our team’s time. We’ve already identified what we want to tackle next, and we’re confident they can deliver it.”
The team behind Brydens
Both of them sat in finance seats before they became consultants. The discovery call sounds different when the person asking has run the process you are describing.
CFO, COO, CEO and finance-systems leadership across listed and large private organisations, high-growth environments, turnarounds, M&A and private equity. Earlier, built data warehousing and performance management on SQL Server, TM1 and the Microsoft BI stack.
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Financial reporting, business intelligence and data integration across government and private organisations, including leading Business Reporting in a NSW State Government department. Specialises in enterprise reporting platforms, APIs, system integrations and ESG reporting. Holds an MBA.
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Labelled by problem and business shape, never by client name. Watch one before you speak to anybody.
Eliminations, currency translation and the consolidated position, from three unconnected ledgers, with no workbook in the chain.
Recording to comeCost, revenue and committed spend against a live project ledger, so the margin question is answered in the meeting it is asked in.
Recording to comeA fourth entity on a fourth ledger, mapped into the group model and reporting on the same close as the other three.
Recording to comeBring us the finance process that’s holding you back.
Whether it’s reporting that takes too long, spreadsheets carrying too much risk, disconnected systems, a forecast that’s always out of date, or a process that no longer scales, we’ll help you find a clearer way forward.
Contact us today to discuss a clearer path forward.
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Too many systems.
Too much manual work.
Every month, Finance rebuilds the same reports by hand. Let’s make them dynamic and ready to review minutes after close.
Brighter outcomes.
From fragmented data to a single, trusted view.
Disconnected systems.
Endless manual work.
Finance teams are constantly reconciling entities, ledgers and currencies across multiple systems, with critical data trapped in spreadsheets and manual processes.
- Data scattered across systems
- Manual reconciliations each month
- Higher risk of errors
- Little time for analysis
Connected data.
Confident decisions.
Data flows automatically into a finance-certified layer, giving you one consolidated position, with every figure traceable to its source.
- All your data in one place
- Automated and reliable
- Full traceability and control
- More time for what matters
Challenges and solutions in the real world
Hear what our existing clients have to say…
“The team at Brydens BI brought together data from multiple internal and external sources. Their finance knowledge and willingness to understand our business made the process easy. They just got on with it. Now our financial and non-financial reporting is consolidated and readily available to use. It’s been transformative. The same team that scoped and implemented the solution still supports us today.”
“We’ve moved from a slow, painful, Excel-heavy annual budget process to a monthly rolling forecast linked directly to our ERP and HR systems. Department heads can review and update their numbers online, and our executives have a dedicated reporting app. By the time we start the annual budget, most of the work is already done.”
“It was refreshing to work with people who understood Finance as well as the technology. Brydens BI quickly grasped our accounting requirements, found practical ways to automate the work and delivered a solution that fit our business without consuming all our team’s time. We’ve already identified what we want to tackle next, and we’re confident they can deliver it.”
Spend less time producing the numbers. More time using them.
If your team is still pulling data from multiple systems, rebuilding reports and checking numbers by hand every month, there’s a better way. Let’s simplify the process and get reliable reporting ready sooner.
Contact us today to discuss a clearer path forward.
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You can see what changed.
But not why.
Finance spends too much time going back to source systems to explain performance. Let’s put the detail behind the numbers at your fingertips.
Brighter outcomes.
From seeing what changed to understanding why.
You can see what changed.
Not why.
The numbers show the variance, but the explanation sits across source systems, offline analysis and individual knowledge. Finance still has to investigate before it can explain the result.
- Variance shown, drivers unclear
- Explanation scattered across systems
- Answers rely on offline analysis
- Insight comes too late
The explanation arrives
with the number.
Drivers, trends and exceptions are surfaced alongside the result, with the ability to drill into the detail and trace movements back to source.
- Drivers surfaced early
- Drill into supporting detail
- Commentary alongside the numbers
- Faster answers to follow-up questions
Challenges and solutions in the real world
Hear what our existing clients have to say…
“The team at Brydens BI brought together data from multiple internal and external sources. Their finance knowledge and willingness to understand our business made the process easy. They just got on with it. Now our financial and non-financial reporting is consolidated and readily available to use. It’s been transformative. The same team that scoped and implemented the solution still supports us today.”
“We’ve moved from a slow, painful, Excel-heavy annual budget process to a monthly rolling forecast linked directly to our ERP and HR systems. Department heads can review and update their numbers online, and our executives have a dedicated reporting app. By the time we start the annual budget, most of the work is already done.”
“It was refreshing to work with people who understood Finance as well as the technology. Brydens BI quickly grasped our accounting requirements, found practical ways to automate the work and delivered a solution that fit our business without consuming all our team’s time. We’ve already identified what we want to tackle next, and we’re confident they can deliver it.”
Get to the answer without going back to the source.
If your team is constantly digging through systems, spreadsheets and offline analysis to explain what’s driving performance, let’s make that detail easier to access and faster to understand.
Contact us today to discuss a clearer path forward.
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One spreadsheet.
Too much depends on it.
When critical reporting relies on one workbook, one owner and layers of formulas, every change adds risk. Let’s make the process controlled, governed and repeatable.
Brighter outcomes.
From spreadsheet dependency to governed control.
Critical logic.
Fragile spreadsheets.
Important calculations, rules and assumptions sit inside complex workbooks with limited controls, documentation or oversight. The more they evolve, the harder they become to manage safely.
- Critical logic trapped in spreadsheets
- Limited controls and documentation
- Higher risk of errors
- Key-person dependency
Finance keeps control.
Risk comes down.
Critical calculations move into a governed, reviewable environment while Finance retains ownership of the rules, assumptions and outputs.
- Governed calculations and logic
- Versioned and reviewable
- Clear workflows and approvals
- Finance remains in control
Challenges and solutions in the real world
Hear what our existing clients have to say…
“The team at Brydens BI brought together data from multiple internal and external sources. Their finance knowledge and willingness to understand our business made the process easy. They just got on with it. Now our financial and non-financial reporting is consolidated and readily available to use. It’s been transformative. The same team that scoped and implemented the solution still supports us today.”
“We’ve moved from a slow, painful, Excel-heavy annual budget process to a monthly rolling forecast linked directly to our ERP and HR systems. Department heads can review and update their numbers online, and our executives have a dedicated reporting app. By the time we start the annual budget, most of the work is already done.”
“It was refreshing to work with people who understood Finance as well as the technology. Brydens BI quickly grasped our accounting requirements, found practical ways to automate the work and delivered a solution that fit our business without consuming all our team’s time. We’ve already identified what we want to tackle next, and we’re confident they can deliver it.”
Your critical finance processes shouldn’t depend on one spreadsheet.
If key reporting relies on complex workbooks, individual knowledge or formulas that are becoming harder to control, let’s build a more governed, repeatable process without losing the flexibility Finance needs.
Contact us today to discuss a clearer path forward.
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The forecast is out of date before it’s finished.
Finance spends weeks distributing templates, chasing submissions and consolidating assumptions. Let’s make planning connected, collaborative and ready to update when the business changes.
Brighter outcomes.
From stale forecasts to connected planning.
Too many templates.
Too much chasing.
Assumptions arrive in different formats, Finance spends weeks consolidating them, and by the time the forecast is finished the business has already moved on.
- Templates distributed manually
- Assumptions arrive in different formats
- Consolidation takes too long
- Forecasts become stale quickly
Change an assumption.
See the impact.
Drivers connect directly to the forecast, actuals flow through automatically and Finance can update scenarios without rebuilding the model each time.
- Drivers connected to the forecast
- Controlled inputs and approvals
- Actuals flow through automatically
- Scenarios updated quickly
Challenges and solutions in the real world
Hear what our existing clients have to say…
“The team at Brydens BI brought together data from multiple internal and external sources. Their finance knowledge and willingness to understand our business made the process easy. They just got on with it. Now our financial and non-financial reporting is consolidated and readily available to use. It’s been transformative. The same team that scoped and implemented the solution still supports us today.”
“We’ve moved from a slow, painful, Excel-heavy annual budget process to a monthly rolling forecast linked directly to our ERP and HR systems. Department heads can review and update their numbers online, and our executives have a dedicated reporting app. By the time we start the annual budget, most of the work is already done.”
“It was refreshing to work with people who understood Finance as well as the technology. Brydens BI quickly grasped our accounting requirements, found practical ways to automate the work and delivered a solution that fit our business without consuming all our team’s time. We’ve already identified what we want to tackle next, and we’re confident they can deliver it.”
Make your forecast easier to change when the business does.
If every update means new templates, more chasing and another round of consolidation, let’s connect the planning process so your team can spend more time reviewing scenarios and less time rebuilding them.
Contact us today to discuss a clearer path forward.
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The business scaled.
The finance process did not.
Every new entity, acquisition and system adds more work for Finance. Let’s build a process that can absorb growth without adding the same level of manual effort.
Brighter outcomes.
From growing complexity to scalable Finance.
More growth.
More manual work.
Every new entity, acquisition and operating system adds mappings, reports and manual steps. Finance capacity gets consumed simply keeping the process running.
- More entities, more manual work
- New systems create new processes
- Complexity grows faster than capacity
- Finance holds everything together
Capacity comes
from the process.
A governed model makes it easier to add entities, systems and reporting requirements without rebuilding the finance process every time the business grows.
- One governed group model
- Add entities without rebuilding
- Recurring processes automated
- More capacity for higher-value work
Challenges and solutions in the real world
Hear what our existing clients have to say…
“The team at Brydens BI brought together data from multiple internal and external sources. Their finance knowledge and willingness to understand our business made the process easy. They just got on with it. Now our financial and non-financial reporting is consolidated and readily available to use. It’s been transformative. The same team that scoped and implemented the solution still supports us today.”
“We’ve moved from a slow, painful, Excel-heavy annual budget process to a monthly rolling forecast linked directly to our ERP and HR systems. Department heads can review and update their numbers online, and our executives have a dedicated reporting app. By the time we start the annual budget, most of the work is already done.”
“It was refreshing to work with people who understood Finance as well as the technology. Brydens BI quickly grasped our accounting requirements, found practical ways to automate the work and delivered a solution that fit our business without consuming all our team’s time. We’ve already identified what we want to tackle next, and we’re confident they can deliver it.”
Growth shouldn’t create the same amount of work in Finance.
New entities, acquisitions and systems will add complexity. Your finance workload doesn’t have to grow at the same rate. Let’s build processes that can scale with the business.
Contact us today to discuss a clearer path forward.
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AI is ready.
Your finance context needs to be too.
Generic AI can generate an answer. Let’s give it the governed financial data and business context it needs to produce answers Finance can actually use.
Brighter outcomes.
From generic AI to finance answers you can trust.
AI has the prompt.
Not the context.
Your financial data, structures and definitions sit across different systems. Without that context, AI can generate an answer, but Finance cannot easily verify or trace it.
- No access to trusted finance data
- Missing business context
- Answers are hard to verify
- Analysis remains manual
AI starts with trusted
finance context.
Financial and operational data come together in a governed foundation, giving AI the context it needs to produce useful, traceable outputs for Finance.
- Trusted data and definitions
- Governed finance context
- Traceable outputs
- Faster analysis and commentary
Challenges and solutions in the real world
Hear what our existing clients have to say…
“The team at Brydens BI brought together data from multiple internal and external sources. Their finance knowledge and willingness to understand our business made the process easy. They just got on with it. Now our financial and non-financial reporting is consolidated and readily available to use. It’s been transformative. The same team that scoped and implemented the solution still supports us today.”
“We’ve moved from a slow, painful, Excel-heavy annual budget process to a monthly rolling forecast linked directly to our ERP and HR systems. Department heads can review and update their numbers online, and our executives have a dedicated reporting app. By the time we start the annual budget, most of the work is already done.”
“It was refreshing to work with people who understood Finance as well as the technology. Brydens BI quickly grasped our accounting requirements, found practical ways to automate the work and delivered a solution that fit our business without consuming all our team’s time. We’ve already identified what we want to tackle next, and we’re confident they can deliver it.”
Give AI the finance context it needs to be useful.
AI becomes more valuable when it starts with trusted financial data, consistent definitions and the right business context. Let’s create the foundation needed to turn AI into something Finance can actually use.
Contact us today to discuss a clearer path forward.
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The person who scopes it is the person who builds it, and the person who supports it.
Four steps, one page, and no scoping document. The compression is the argument.
We deliver a solution. We do not deliver a report telling you about potential solutions.
No scoping document, no discovery phase billed as a deliverable. We ask what breaks and you tell us.
Effort, not ceremony. There is no IT project attached to it, which is why there is no pricing page on this site.
Your close runs on the new platform in parallel with the old one, typically inside two months, before anything is switched off.
Email us, call us, message us. Usually solved in minutes, and when it is bigger than that, you get a timeframe.
The opportunity is not to replace Excel.
It is to preserve the flexibility and business-specific knowledge that made the process valuable in the first place. Excel stays as the interface for investigation and modelling. Data, rules, security and audit-sensitive processing move into a governed platform.
Finance teams that work heavily in Excel keep working heavily in Excel. What changes is what the workbook is reading from.
A healthier operating boundary, not IT removed.
IT governs infrastructure, security, integration standards and reliability. Finance owns its reports, mappings, models and business rules, within controlled limits. Both sides get the thing they actually wanted.
Almost nobody in this market pitches to IT this way, which is why this block gets real weight.
The governance one-pagerA consultant was asked to connect a system nobody here had connected before. He was given a pattern that had worked elsewhere, and a couple of pointers. It took two days. Before the pattern library and the tooling around it, that was months of work for someone new, if they got there at all.
That is what makes a small team viable, and it is why the answer to what happens if someone is away is a documented method rather than a headcount.
Twenty years of the same job is what removes the scoping document.
Getting a system like this built is a bit like renovating. Knock out a wall, put in a window, change a room. For most people it is impossible to even start. For a team that has done nothing but renovations for twenty years, it is: yes, we do that, and while we are in there, do you want the door fixed. We could start next week.
Not a walkthrough of your workbook.
We will look at what comes out of it. The logic inside it took you years to build and it would take us weeks to be told. We would rather read the output and rebuild it properly.
The lake gives you the data. It does not give you the management position.
Sometimes the answer from IT is that the data is all going into a lake, so nothing else is needed. It does not give you the mappings, the eliminations, the currency translation, the business rules or the consolidated position, and those are the work. We are not competing with your data platform. We are the layer that turns what is in it into a management position finance can sign.
You pasted a financial report into a chatbot. It got one answer right and one answer wrong.
You concluded AI cannot be trusted with numbers. You are not wrong. Generic AI plus disconnected data equals confident nonsense. The fix is not a better model. It is deciding, up front, which half of the work a model is allowed anywhere near.
Most finance AI is a chat box bolted onto a dashboard. It demos acceptably. Then nobody clicks it again.
Deterministic, against a structured and secured database. There is no AI anywhere in the consolidation.
We do not ask AI what the variance was, or what composed it. We already know. Code calculated it.
One job only: explain the breakdown in language a CFO can use.
The $242.9k shortfall is concentrated in two projects, not across the portfolio.
$181.4k is subcontractor cost brought forward from P08 on the Northline fit-out.
The remaining $61.5k is a timing difference on retentions and reverses next period.
If you question the output, check the transactions. They are in the package.
Every answer returns with the drill paths, the underlying data sent to the model, and every component used to produce the response. A number without provenance is not a deliverable, and that rule does not change because a model wrote the sentence around it.
Run the same question a hundred times against the same data and you get the same answer.
It has its own block because it is falsifiable, and because almost nobody selling AI to finance can make it. Ask us to demonstrate it on a call rather than take it in writing.
A third-party verdict, not an offer.
ForesightXL is an Excel forecasting assistant that structures forecasts into transparent components (trend, seasonality, assumptions, constraints, one-offs) so the logic is explicit and reviewable. It is an official Microsoft AI partner product, available from the Microsoft Marketplace, and it passed review unusually fast.
It appears this early on this page for one reason: it proves the team ships AI products that survive somebody else's review.
The answer you can circulate internally.
It runs inside the product, or against your own API connections, configured to your policy, with cost running through your environment on a Microsoft-centric stack. Within eighteen months most enterprise buyers will have an AI policy. This is written to be forwarded to whoever owns yours.
Automated consolidation is the problem worth solving. AI is what you do once the numbers are trusted.
Plan, report and investigate in one governed workspace.
CoreIQ connects finance data, models and processes, so your team can build reports, manage plans, automate recurring work and find out what is driving the result. AI works from controlled data and approved context. Finance stays in control of the answer.
Built for the questions that come after the numbers.
Build reports around the question
Financial and operational measures on consistent definitions. Shape a view yourself, or let AI draft one for Finance to check before it is published.
Explore what drives performance
Move from a headline result into entities, departments, projects and transactions, without rebuilding the analysis in a spreadsheet.
Plan and model scenarios
Actuals, budgets, forecasts and drivers in one connected process, with inputs, approvals and the impact of each assumption visible.
Automate recurring work
Governed workflows collect inputs, apply business rules and move work through review, including processes that cross Finance and operations.
Investigate and draft with AI
CoreIQ finds the main drivers of a result and drafts an explanation with supporting figures. Finance checks the evidence and approves the wording.
One shared place to work
Reports and work organised in a company workspace, so everyone starts from the same definitions and sees what is relevant to their role.
The numbers, and what the business knows about them.
When Finance asks why a result changed, CoreIQ takes the figures from governed finance data. The Brain then brings in context the user is allowed to see, such as project updates, meeting notes and reporting definitions.
Knowledge is organised for the whole company, a workspace or an individual. Finance reviews the evidence and stays responsible for the final answer.
Once the data refreshes, CoreIQ investigates the variances across the pack and drafts commentary from the supporting detail and prior months.
Finance starts the review with explanations already drafted, potentially minutes after refresh, and spends its time challenging findings and signing off.
Introduced alongside what you already run.
CoreIQ works next to an established finance environment. For Calumo clients, a first use case can draw on a controlled copy of trusted actual and plan data while Calumo remains the authoritative source.
One useful use case first, then build from there.
See CoreIQ in the context of your business.
Bring a reporting question, a planning process or an operational problem Finance is helping to solve. We will walk through how CoreIQ could help, what it would need and how it would sit alongside your current systems.
Contact us today to discuss a clearer path forward.
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Governed consolidation, reporting and planning on Calumo.
We replace spreadsheet-heavy consolidation, reporting and planning with Calumo solutions built on Microsoft Azure. Better control, less manual effort, and a foundation that scales with the business.
Four things, delivered as one governed model.
Consolidation and reporting
Automated eliminations and multi-currency consolidation, board-ready packs, and drill-through from summary to transaction.
Forecasting and planning
Driver-based rolling forecasts, scenario modelling and workflow governance, aligned to actuals.
Finance data warehouse
One source of truth across ERP, GL, payroll, CRM, HR and operational data, on a governed Azure model.
Ongoing support
Structured support, performance tuning, enhancements and training as reporting needs change.
From 31 entities in spreadsheets to 58 in one controlled model.
An ASX-listed industrial services group moved from spreadsheet-led consolidation across six GL systems to a Calumo model that has since absorbed 27 more entities.
- Automated consolidation and rule-based eliminations
- Real-time consolidated forecast visibility
- Reporting extended to ESG and emissions metrics
Connected to the systems you already run.
APIs and Azure Data Factory where cloud endpoints exist, direct database connections where those are better. Source data becomes finance-ready, and Finance can enrich it and write planning inputs back.
Six steps, one team from start to finish.
Does Calumo replace Excel?
No. Excel stays part of how Finance works. It just stops being the uncontrolled source of truth: governance, control and scale move into the model.
Get more from Calumo.
Whether you are planning a new Calumo implementation or want more from the one you have, we will review how your consolidation, reporting and planning run today and where the effort is going.
Contact us today to discuss a clearer path forward.
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Enterprise performance management, implemented end to end.
We implement, optimise and support JustPerform, the enterprise performance management platform from insightsoftware. Enterprise-grade capability, with an experience finance teams can own.
- Financial consolidation
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Planning and scenario modelling
- Management and statutory reporting
- Data-driven decision support
Built for complexity, owned by Finance.
Governance and control
Fine-grained permissions, audit trails and workflow-driven processes that reduce spreadsheet risk and improve accountability.
Mid-market to enterprise
Suited to complex consolidation and planning, including multi-entity structures and enterprise-scale performance needs.
Finance ownership
An Excel-familiar experience lets Finance run planning and close, while IT keeps governance and security.
If JustPerform is the right fit, we deliver it. If it is not, we will say so.
We implement and support more than one EPM platform, so selection stays grounded in your outcomes, governance needs and total cost of ownership rather than a product we need to sell.
- Outgrowing spreadsheets for planning and close
- Replacing a legacy EPM tool
- Running a wider finance transformation
The full EPM lifecycle, from design to long-term support.
Talk to an EPM specialist.
Whether you are exploring JustPerform or modernising your finance systems, we will look at what you run today and what a practical EPM roadmap would look like.
Contact us today to discuss a clearer path forward.
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Bring us the finance process that’s holding you back.
Whether it’s reporting that takes too long, spreadsheets carrying too much risk, disconnected systems, a forecast that’s always out of date, or a process that no longer scales, we’ll help you find a clearer way forward.
Contact us today to discuss a clearer path forward.
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Takes the first call, scopes the work, and stays on the account afterwards.
Connect on LinkedInConsolidation, data warehouse modelling and report build. Scopes on the call, then builds it.
Connect on LinkedInKnow what the current process is costing you.
Manual close processes rarely look expensive because the cost is spread across people, systems and repeated work. But once you add up the hours spent reconciling, consolidating, checking and rebuilding reports every month, the number can be significant.
Use the calculator to estimate the annual cost of your current finance process, and compare that with what a more automated, scalable approach could look like.
Want to understand what you could recover?
The calculator shows the cost of the current process. We can help you work out where that time is being lost, what can realistically be automated, and what a better finance process could look like for your business.
Contact us today to discuss a clearer path forward.
In many cases we have become an extension of the finance team.
Brydens BI prides itself on long-term client relationships and on developing deep knowledge of clients’ businesses. We design, build and continually evolve bespoke solutions in partnership with key client staff.
We support Calumo clients with integrated finance and operational data warehousing, consolidation, planning, dashboarding, reporting and automation for things like eliminations, allocations and adjustments. Solutions are designed, implemented and actively managed by Brydens BI for reliability, scalability and ongoing improvement.
Our team all have extensive finance backgrounds. That is what makes same-day turnaround possible for most questions and support requests. Send a Slack, email or Teams message directly, and we respond.
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An extension of the finance team.
Brydens BI prides itself on long-term client relationships and on developing deep knowledge of clients’ businesses, in many cases becoming extensions of the finance team. We design, build, and continually evolve bespoke solutions in partnership with key client staff.
Clients are both private and public, and are based across the globe with a mix of Australian, Asian, North American, and European operations.
Designed, implemented and actively managed by us.
We support Calumo clients with integrated finance and operational data warehousing, consolidation, planning, dashboarding, reporting and automation for things like eliminations, allocations, and adjustments. Solutions are designed, implemented, and actively managed by Brydens BI for reliability, scalability, and ongoing improvement.
Our team all have extensive finance backgrounds. This helps with same-day turnaround for most questions and support requests.
Where we do our best work.
$40m to $1bn revenue
Big enough for the complexity to be real, small enough that finance still feels every manual step.
Multi-entity, often multi-currency
Frequently acquisitive. The consolidation is not a formality.
An internal finance team
Ideally with FP&A. We extend a team; we do not replace one.
Microsoft-oriented IT
Azure, Excel and Power BI already in the building.
Growing, complex, and a bit of a mess
That is the honest description, and it is not a criticism.
Saying so plainly builds more trust than claiming everything.
High-frequency retail and point of sale
Transaction volume and intraday reporting need a different architecture than a monthly management position.
Manufacturing with heavy inventory management
Standard costing, WIP and inventory valuation belong with specialists in that domain.
Real-time operational reporting
We work on the monthly management position.
Not because it cannot be done. Because we do not have the reference material, and the whole offer rests on being able to say we have already solved this for a business like yours.
Private equity arrives and demands information the business cannot produce. So the close gets compressed by hand. Everything goes to day five, which means from day two to day five nobody in finance is available for anything. Then a very capable CFO gets parachuted in with a short window and no usable numbers.
Many businesses this size have an audit or alumni relationship with one of the big four, and the instinct is to ask them which tool to buy. That advisor is often in the demo. The fee for deciding what to buy frequently exceeds the cost of the thing being bought. We are not asking you to skip the advice. We are asking to be one of the names on the list.
Bring us the finance process that’s holding you back.
Whether it’s reporting that takes too long, spreadsheets carrying too much risk, disconnected systems, a forecast that’s always out of date, or a process that no longer scales, we’ll help you find a clearer way forward.
Contact us today to discuss a clearer path forward.
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Finance people who build finance systems.
Brydens BI designs, implements, manages and supports reporting, consolidation, budgeting, forecasting and finance automation for mid-market and enterprise groups. Our team combines deep finance experience with modern data capability, and many of our clients have worked with us for years.
Ten of twelve clients came with us.
When CALUMO was sold to insightsoftware, Tim chose not to join a large US software business. He called about a dozen clients to say what he was doing. Ten or eleven of them moved across on the same day. Brydens BI was busy from the first morning.
That is still how we work. Long relationships, a deep understanding of each client's business, and solutions we design, build and keep improving alongside the finance team.
How we work with every client.
Finance first
Everyone on the team has a finance background. We understand consolidation, eliminations, forecasting and board reporting, not just system configuration.
The same people, start to finish
The people who scope your solution build it and support it. No handover to a delivery team you have never met.
No tickets
Send a Slack, Teams message or email and we respond, usually the same day. Support is a conversation, not a queue.
Honest about fit
If we are not the right answer, we will say so and point you to who is. Selection stays grounded in your outcomes.
Two decades of solution patterns, underneath the database layer.
Twenty years of building the same class of finance system leaves a library: mappings, consolidation rules, allocation methods, report structures and the integration patterns for twenty-five distinct ERPs. It is why a new environment does not start blank, and why a consultant who has not met your system before can still be useful in it inside a week.
How we workMid-market groups between $40m and $1bn in revenue, multi-entity, often multi-currency, frequently acquisitive, with an internal finance team and Microsoft-oriented IT.
The people you will work with.
CFO, COO, CEO and finance-systems leadership across listed and large private organisations, high-growth environments, turnarounds, M&A and private equity. Earlier, built data warehousing and performance management on SQL Server, TM1 and the Microsoft BI stack.
LinkedInFinancial reporting, business intelligence and data integration across government and private organisations, including leading Business Reporting in a NSW State Government department. Specialises in enterprise reporting platforms, APIs, system integrations and ESG reporting. Holds an MBA.
LinkedInBrydens BI is the company. These are the parts.
CoreIQ is what new solutions are built on. CALUMO is the platform we have specialised in for over a decade. ForesightXL is the forecasting engine Microsoft approved. All of it sits on a governed finance data warehouse on Azure, with Excel and Power BI left where finance actually works.
A new CALUMO or CoreIQ environment is like opening Excel for the first time. Blank. No data, no structure, no formulas. Someone has to create the sheets, decide how they interact, bring the data in and organise it. That is the work, and it is why the same software produces very different results in different hands.
Bring us the finance process that’s holding you back.
Whether it’s reporting that takes too long, spreadsheets carrying too much risk, disconnected systems, a forecast that’s always out of date, or a process that no longer scales, we’ll help you find a clearer way forward.
Contact us today to discuss a clearer path forward.
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Practical thinking for finance teams.
Articles on reporting, consolidation, FP&A, forecasting, finance data and automation, from the team that builds these systems every day.