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Liezel (Lee) Becker

Sr Analyst, FP&A
Calgary,AB

Summary

Diligent Senior Analyst with over ten years industry experience across Midstream, Utility, and Corporate segments. Currently managing a portfolio budget of over $170M, with excellent analytical, communication, and organizational skills. A proven problem solver with confidence to make recommendations based off data and experience.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Analyst, Financial Planning

AltaGas Ltd.
01.2021 - Current
  • Championed the financial health and success of AltaGas' Digital and SCM departments, as a "Finance Business Partner"
  • Facilitated monthly outlook process with functional management, identifying material variances to budget, key risks, and mitigation strategies
  • Developed data models, reporting tools, and dashboards to track and manage financial performance and related critical factors
  • Collaborated with intercompany counterparts to create consistent and effective service levels, reporting, and communication for senior leadership
  • Consolidated data and created visualizations across entities to provide senior leadership and stakeholders with enterprise wide reporting, inclusive of operational and project spend (G&A, capital, and deferred expense)
  • Managed annual budgeting process, communications, and submissions, providing recommendations on discretionary areas of spend and how to achieve stretch targets
  • Spearheaded annual cost savings programs through regular check-ins with accountable parties, management of timelines and contracts, updating outlook upon achievement and upstream communications of met savings
  • Improved complex month end activities with by leveraging ERP system fields, specialized database queries and automation, and intra-functional collaboration and training
  • Provided ad hoc analysis and input for board level reporting, contract inquries, and upon request of other financial functions, and senior leadership

Specialist, Digital Financial Management

AltaGas Ltd.
01.2019 - 12.2020
  • Created and implemented internal outlook process to manage to G&A budget
  • Developed reporting templates, outputs, and visualizations to provide management and stakeholders with information to drive decisions
  • Streamlined the procure to pay process through the development and documentation of standards and continuous mentorship of junior team members
  • Produced queries for complex invoice requirements, reducing time to process and increasing accuracy on charged out items
  • Championed the adoption of "Quicklaunch" and created standard GL queries for the team to provide variance analysis, month end efficiencies and accuracy of reporting
  • Prepared monthly status report of Digital key performance indicators, soliciting updates from other tower leads for non-financial measures
  • Implemented MS Teams folder structure and standards for "Digital Office"

Administrative Assistant, Digital

AltaGas Ltd.
10.2013 - 12.2018
  • Managed procure to pay process and invoice approvals, reviewing invoices for anomalies, working with SCM and vendors to correct, and ensuring accurate coding and prompt payment
  • Gained an understanding of Capital Control requirements and applied this knowledge to the creation and proofing of capital justification documentation, job forecasting, and asset management tasks
  • Managed project scope and budget of annual capital digital programs - maintained spend within approved budget and proactively raised AFE supplemental requests as needed
  • Organized office events and team-building activities, promoting a positive, safe, and friendly work environment
  • Facilitated monthly town halls and compiled slide decks, ensuring a relevant and engaging agenda and maintaining time limitations
  • Produced external IT communications to keep employees engaged and informed (onboarding manual and quarterly newsletter)

Education

CPA PEP -

CPA Western School of Business
05.2001 -

CPA PREP -

CPA Western School of Business
05.2001 -

Bachelor of Commerce -

University of Calgary
05.2001 -

Skills

PowerBI and Excel Power Query

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Timeline

Senior Analyst, Financial Planning

AltaGas Ltd.
01.2021 - Current

Specialist, Digital Financial Management

AltaGas Ltd.
01.2019 - 12.2020

Administrative Assistant, Digital

AltaGas Ltd.
10.2013 - 12.2018

CPA PEP -

CPA Western School of Business
05.2001 -

CPA PREP -

CPA Western School of Business
05.2001 -

Bachelor of Commerce -

University of Calgary
05.2001 -

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