Financial Analyst - Corporate Finance (Industrials M&A)

Overview

Business Unit: Corporate Finance Industry: Industrials. Houlihan Lokey, Inc. (NYSE:HLI) is a leading global investment bank recognized for delivering independent strategic and financial advice to corporations, financial sponsors, and governments. With uniquely deep industry expertise, broad international reach, and a partnership approach rooted in trust, the firm provides innovative, integrated solutions across mergers and acquisitions, capital solutions, financial restructuring, and financial and valuation advisory. Our unmatched transaction volumes provide differentiated, data driven perspectives that help our clients achieve their most critical goals.

Scope & Responsibilities

The Industrials team at Houlihan Lokey are looking to add a Financial Analyst in London. The environment at Houlihan Lokey is both collegial and entrepreneurial. Teamwork is essential to the firm's success. At the same time, creativity and new ideas are encouraged.

As a Financial Analyst, you will:

• Prepare, analyse and help explain historical and projected financial information.
• Create financial models.
• Coordinate and perform business due diligence.
• Prepare confidential information memoranda, management presentations, marketing pitches and other presentations.
• Conduct research on sectors, companies and potential buyers.
• Value companies and businesses.
• Build relationships and maintain direct contact with clients and prospective clients and professional advisors.
• Assist in planning of engagements.

Requirements & Qualifications

The ideal candidate thinks strategically, is motivated, detail oriented, creative, outgoing, and possesses excellent quantitative skills.

• Strong academic track record and achieved at least a 2:1 Bachelor's degree (or equivalent).
• 1-2 years of full time investment banking experience in Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A).
• Experience in the Industrials sector favourable regarded.
• Demonstrable experience in executing sell side transactions.
• Strong Excel and financial modelling skills.
• Strong analytical abilities and knowledge of accounting and applied financial theory.
• Excellent understanding of financial statements analysis with the ability to work through key assumptions, implicit caveats, and limitations.
• Excellent understanding of financial valuation theory, methodologies, and applications.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work cooperatively with team members.
• Ability to work independently in a fast paced environment, manage multiple projects and hit deadlines in a highly organized manner.
• An independent, solutions focused mind set.
• An exceptional work ethic.
• Fluency in a European language is strongly favourable (for example French, German, Spanish, Italian).

Equal Opportunity

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.