Trusted numbers. Better decisions. More time.
We build solutions tailored to your business, solving practical challenges with trusted data, useful AI and automation. We stay involved, advising and supporting you as your business evolves.
Built on Microsoft technology.
Brydens BI implements and supports Calumo and Finance CoreIQ.
The challenges we solve
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.
An accountant with an MBA and years of hands-on coding experience, Tim combines finance leadership with deep technical capability. His background spans executive, finance and finance systems roles across listed and large private organisations. Specialises in understanding each business, and complex situations.
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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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Producing the numbers
Is collecting, correcting and consolidating taking longer than the analysis?
The right solution will connect your data, build confidence and have reports ready to review minutes after close.
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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Understanding the numbers
Do you spend too much time chasing the 'why' behind your numbers?
The right solution will link detail to your numbers, allowing you to drill down, drill to transaction and see meaningful draft AI commentary.
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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Critical spreadsheet risk
Do your numbers or a key process depend on a single spreadsheet?
The right solution will leverage your spreadsheet learnings, introduce automation as appropriate and reduce risk, while ensuring you retain control.
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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Budgeting and forecasting
Are forecasts out of date before you've finished chasing spreadsheets?
The right solution will remove the need for spreadsheets. It will be collaborative, with updates automatically consolidating and new scenarios or assumption changes easy to action.
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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Scaling for growth
Does business growth mean more spreadsheets and workarounds?
The right solution will make it easy to add entities and systems; it will become a growth enabler and free up capacity for higher-value work.
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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Leveraging AI
Is your finance data ready for AI to help understand your business and explain your numbers?
The right solution will give AI trusted financial data and business context. Enabling draft AI analysis and commentary with traceable answers that the business values.
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 team that scopes it is the team that builds it, and the team that supports it.
You work directly with the team doing the work, from the first conversation through implementation and ongoing support.
We deliver a working solution, not a report about potential solutions.
We ask what breaks, what takes too long and what you need to see. You show us the reporting and processes that matter. We use that conversation to establish a practical scope.
You get a straightforward proposal setting out what we will deliver, what it will cost and what we need from you. Our experience keeps the upfront work proportionate.
Each phase delivers practical value and gets your team using the system. Where relevant, we run alongside existing processes, reconcile the results and ensure your team understands and owns the solution before moving on.
Email us, call us or message us. You reach people who know your system. Small issues can often be resolved quickly. Larger work gets a clear next step and timeframe.
The opportunity is not to replace Excel.
It is to preserve the flexibility and business knowledge that made your process valuable in the first place. Shared data, rules, security and controlled processing sit in a governed platform.
Excel remains an option for investigation and modelling, but most users embrace working online, where shared reports, live data and drill-through make it easier to explore results and work together.
Clear responsibilities for Finance and IT.
The platforms are cloud based. Finance owns its reports, mappings, models and business rules, within agreed controls. We manage the finance solution and its technical changes.
Your IT team is involved mainly in establishing or changing connections to source systems and confirming security requirements. Day-to-day use and ongoing improvements rarely need their involvement.
How governance worksFinance experience. Proven methods. Shared knowledge.
Everyone in our team has worked in Finance, lived through month-end and posted journals. We understand the pressure of getting the numbers right and being able to explain them.
We combine that experience with reusable integration patterns, documented methods and shared tooling. A recent connection to an unfamiliar system took two days because the consultant could start from a proven approach.That reduces build time and makes the solution easier to support. Shared knowledge, documentation and access mean another team member can pick up the work when needed.
Twenty years of experience means we know where to start.
The business details vary, but many of the underlying problems are familiar: connecting systems, mapping accounts, consolidating entities, translating currencies and turning spreadsheets into repeatable processes.
We bring proven methods to those problems, then adapt them to your business. That is what keeps scoping practical and delivery moving.
Start with the outputs and the decisions they support.
Show us the reports you rely on, what they tell you and where the process breaks down.
We use those outputs to establish what the solution needs to deliver, then work through the rules, exceptions and controls that make the numbers right. You do not need to explain every formula before we can begin.
The lake provides the data. Finance still needs a governed reporting model.
A data lake can give us a strong starting point. Finance still needs mappings, business rules and reconciliations, plus eliminations and currency translation where relevant, to turn that data into reliable reporting.
We build that finance layer using your existing data platform, involving your IT team where needed for data connections. The result is reporting Finance can explain and sign off.
AI-assisted forecasting. Inside Excel.
Combine historical data with plain-English business context to produce forecasts your team can review, explain and refine.
Built by Brydens BI. Approved by Microsoft. Available in Microsoft Marketplace.
Use your existing data and workbooks, without moving to a new system.
Add assumptions about pricing, pipeline, costs or market conditions in plain English.
Review a mathematical baseline, AI-assisted adjustments and the reasons behind them.
Support rolling forecasts, reforecasts and what-if analysis.
Finance CoreIQ
Plan, report and investigate in one governed workspace.
Finance 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
Finance 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, Finance 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, Finance 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.
Finance 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 Finance 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 Finance 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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Calumo
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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Practical Calumo walkthroughs for finance teams.
Short videos covering the features finance teams use most: navigating the member explorer, controlling dropdowns, keeping reports dynamic, charting, and live linking into Word and PowerPoint.
← Back to CalumoCalumo report examples
Calumo is a flexible tool with many reporting and interface possibilities. Reports can be fully dynamic, linked to each other with context awareness, include data from multiple sources, allow writeback of numbers, allow rich text commentary (that will appear in all relevant related places), include tooltips, drill to detail and lots more. And, of course, they can be formatted in every way imaginable.
Below is a mix of different Calumo report examples. To learn more, contact Brydens BI and ask for a demo.
JustPerform
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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Book a discovery call with Tim.
Pick a time for a 30-minute Teams call about the finance process that's holding you back.
Know 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 connect finance and operational data to support consolidation, planning, dashboards and reporting, with automation for processes such as eliminations, allocations and adjustments. Each solution is tailored to the client’s business, designed, implemented and actively supported by Brydens BI as their needs evolve.
Beyond standard reporting and planning, our solutions are flexible enough to address your specific challenges, from a custom calculation or workflow to a purpose-built app for your team, clients or employees.
Our team has 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 connect finance and operational data to support consolidation, planning, dashboards and reporting, with automation for processes such as eliminations, allocations and adjustments. Brydens BI designs, implements and actively manages these solutions for reliability, scalability and ongoing improvement.
Our team has 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, but it should be.
An internal finance team
Ideally with FP&A. We extend a team; we do not replace one.
Open to technology that makes Finance better
Comfortable using Microsoft technology and exploring practical AI where it adds value.
Growing, complex, and a bit of a mess
That is the honest description, and it is not a criticism.
Reporting needs to go beyond the ERP
Finance needs reporting, analysis and planning that bring together multiple systems and reflect how the business works.
Specific challenges need flexible solutions
Allocations, commissions, project forecasts or other business processes need more than a standard setup.
Ready to improve how Finance works
The team sees the need for change and has someone ready to help lead it.
Looking for an ongoing partner
An extension of your finance team, bringing technical capability and practical advice when you need it.
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 minute by minute operational reporting
We work on the monthly management position, with daily and weekly reporting available where appropriate.
Not because it cannot be done. Because we specialise, and in some areas we have much more experience than others.
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 of them moved across on the same day. Brydens BI was busy from the first morning. The eleventh moved a month later.
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
We recommend what fits your business and the outcomes you need. If we’re not the right partner, we’ll say so and help you find a better fit.
Built around your business
We start with how your business works, the challenges you face and the decisions you need to make. Then we shape the solution around those needs.
Start small. Build on what works.
We break delivery into manageable steps, get useful improvements into your team’s hands early and build from there.
Two decades of solution patterns, underneath the database layer.
Twenty years of building solutions for diverse finance teams and businesses have given us proven patterns, consolidation rules, allocation methods, report structures and integration methods across 25 ERPs and dozens of other systems. We adapt that experience to your business, giving our consultants a practical starting point. Years of partnering with clients have taught us what good looks like and what works in practice.
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.
An accountant with an MBA and years of hands-on coding experience, Tim combines finance leadership with deep technical capability. His background spans executive, finance and finance systems roles across listed and large private organisations. Specialises in understanding each business, and complex situations.
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.
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We implement and support Calumo and Finance CoreIQ, connecting financial and operational data through a governed data foundation on Microsoft Azure. Online, Excel and Power BI give your team familiar ways to report, analyse and plan.
Source systems
- General ledger
- Payroll & HR
- Project & operational
- Other business information
Governed data foundation
- Financial & operational data
- Shared definitions
- Business rules
- Business context
Reporting, planning & AI
- Calumo & Finance CoreIQ
- Connected planning
- Secure AI chat interface
- Workflow & automation
Business outputs
- Board & management reporting
- Consolidated results
- Budgets & rolling forecasts
- Insights & draft commentary
Designed, implemented and supported by Brydens BI. Built around your business.
The platform is the starting point. The value comes from connecting your data, defining the rules and building the reports, calculations and workflows your business needs. We design, build and support that solution, drawing on years of practical business and systems experience.
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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