About
Finance, data, and the bridge between them.
Northbridge BI is the consulting practice of Patrick Bodner — a finance professional focused on data-driven decision support, KPI reporting, and performance management. We help growing businesses turn financial and operational data into decisions management can actually act on.
Patrick Bodner · Founder, Northbridge BI
Profile
A finance practitioner who codes the reporting layer himself.
Patrick has spent the last decade working across controlling, consulting, and compliance — from sales controlling at a fast- scaling SaaS company, to financial-crime advisory at PwC, to business intelligence engagements with mid-market clients today.
That mix is the point. Most reporting failures aren't a tool problem — they're a translation problem between finance, operations, and the systems that hold the data. Northbridge BI sits in that gap: structuring the numbers, building the dashboards, and writing the commentary that turns a monthly close into a strategic conversation.
The practice is intentionally small and senior — engagements are led end-to-end by Patrick, with no hand-offs and no junior layer between you and the work.
How we work
Three principles behind every engagement.
01
Decisions over dashboards
Reporting only matters when it changes what leadership does next. Every output is built backward from the decision it should support.
02
One source of truth
We reconcile data at the source — ERP, CRM, finance systems — so the numbers in the boardroom match the numbers in operations.
03
Transparent, repeatable, owned
We leave behind models and dashboards your team can read, extend, and trust — not black boxes that depend on us.
Focus
Where we add the most value.
Four interlocking disciplines, delivered as a single engagement or as targeted interventions inside an existing finance function.
Financial Reporting & Controlling
Cleaner numbers, faster close, and reports leadership actually reads.
Forecasting & Variance Analysis
Forecasts that catch deviations early and explain the why.
KPI & Performance Management
A KPI set that maps to how the business actually creates value.
Data-Driven Decision Support
Decisions backed by transparent, repeatable analysis — not gut feel.
Experience
A decade across controlling, consulting, and compliance.
Selected engagements — spanning SaaS, professional services, manufacturing, and financial services.
01
Finance Consultant
Loyos Business Intelligence GmbH
- Design Power BI dashboards that increase KPI transparency and cut manual reporting effort across finance and operations.
- Analyze P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow statements to surface the real performance drivers behind the numbers.
- Build and optimize ETL pipelines to automate recurring reporting and raise overall data consistency.
02
Associate Consultant — Financial Crime & Compliance
PwC Germany Ltd.
- Analyzed financial transactions to identify risk patterns and potential compliance breaches.
- Conducted KYC reviews and prepared Suspicious Activity Reports in coordination with the FIU.
- Monitored regulatory developments and supported their implementation within client engagements.
03
Finance Consultant
NonStop Consulting AG
- Developed forecasts and variance analyses to flag performance deviations early and inform leadership decisions.
- Ran revenue, cost, and profitability analyses that fed directly into strategic planning.
- Supported audit preparation and strengthened KPI frameworks for international clients.
04
Sales Controller
Swapcard Corporation S.A.S.
- Owned plan-vs-actual analyses that exposed performance gaps and accelerated commercial decisions.
- Analyzed sales KPIs to surface growth opportunities across segments and regions.
- Delivered management reports and profitability analyses for the executive team.
05
Finance Analysis Intern
dpointgroup
- Supported financial modeling, risk analysis, and forecasting workstreams for the controlling team.
06
Logistics Manager
Durst Phototechnik AG
- Developed and implemented supply chain strategies and process optimizations that improved operational throughput.
Education
Bachelor of Business Administration
Rotterdam Business School
CFA Program — Level I Candidate
Exam scheduled for November 2026.
Technical toolkit
- Power BI — reporting, dashboarding, data visualization
- Data modeling & ETL — Power Query, DAX
- ERP & CRM — MS Dynamics, Salesforce
- Excel — advanced modeling, financial analysis
- SQL — working knowledge for data extraction
Languages
- GermanNative
- EnglishFluent
- ItalianFluent
- SpanishSolid
- PortugueseBeginner