Associate, Transaction Advisory Services, Accounting and Financial Reporting - Multiple Locations

Business Unit:

Financial and Valuation Advisory

Industry:

TAS - Transaction Advisory Services

Houlihan Lokey, Inc. (NYSE:HLI) is a global investment bank with expertise in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, financial restructuring, and financial and valuation advisory. Houlihan Lokey serves corporations, institutions, and governments worldwide with offices in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific region. Independent advice and intellectual rigor are hallmarks of the firm’s commitment to client success across its advisory services. The firm is the No. 1 investment bank for global M&A transactions under $1 billion, the No. 1 M&A advisor for the past eight consecutive years in the U.S., the No. 1 global restructuring advisor for the past nine consecutive years, and the No. 1 global M&A fairness opinion advisor over the past 25 years, all based on number of transactions and according to data provided by Refinitiv.

Transaction Advisory Services

Houlihan Lokey’s Transaction Advisory Services (TAS) team assists private equity and corporate clients by providing cohesive diligence across financial, tax, data analytics, cybersecurity, and technical accounting. Leveraging data-based insights, strong technical knowledge and industry experience, the TAS team supports clients in M&A, strategic transformations and capital markets endeavors.

Drawing on Houlihan Lokey’s market leadership in middle-market M&A transactions, our deals experts provide candid, unbiased, and rigorous support on matters most impacting deal value, and assist investors in identifying and evaluating key value drivers and risk factors.

Job Purpose:

Our Transaction Advisory Services, Accounting and Financial Reporting (TAS/AFR) practice is excitingly growing.  We are looking for a new associate.

Our AFR advisory team works closely with clients through their strategic dealmaking financial reporting requirements. Our specialists have deep knowledge of deals, sectors, and accounting matters that enables them to fully understand the challenges clients face, including:

• Buyer/seller financial statements and disclosures

• Sponsor-driven management reporting

• Lender financial and covenant requirements

• Regulatory compliance

As an associate, you will:

• Team with a highly talented and dedicated group of M&A and Advisory professionals, providing you broad exposure to different transactional and technical issues affecting businesses within the M&A and capital markets today.

• Work in a variety of industries on an investment banking platform, providing exposure to the broader corporate finance industry and capital markets.

• Develop and extend your financial and interpersonal skills as you collaborate with management finance teams and sponsors to advance their accounting and financial reporting objectives resulting from transaction driven events. 

​We team closely with our corporate finance and restructuring colleagues across all our industry platforms, on a variety of projects and accounts. 

​Responsibilities​ & Deliverables:

• Participate in buy-side, sell-side, restructuring and capital raising transaction advisory engagements

• Draft and review analyses and findings for delivering unbiased advice to management for their records or inclusion in transaction advisory reports specific to key technical issues

• Develop and review financial models

• Research technical guidance and market practices around accounting and financial reporting issues

• Review transaction agreements, customer and supplier contracts

• Support discussions with senior client executives and management

• Support diligence projects through fieldwork, management meetings and desktop reviews

• Communicate potential external audit risks and considerations when applying technical accounting guidance and structuring

• Extend industry skills and qualifications

• Develop professional network and relationships with firm, client and target professionals

• Collaborate closely with corporate finance, valuation and financial restructuring colleagues

• Supervise team members through training, coaching and critical review

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting from an accredited college/university

• CPA certification is required

• 4+ years of Transaction Services experience or 2+ years of external audit experience and at least 2 years of Transaction Services experience with a Big 4 or national firm

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