Senior Associate/Vice President | Financial Sponsors Group

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Financial Sponsor Coverage Group

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Overview

Houlihan Lokey (NYSE: HLI) is a global investment bank with expertise in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, financial restructuring, and financial and valuation advisory. The firm serves corporations, institutions, and governments worldwide with offices in the United States, 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.

Houlihan Lokey is the No. 1 investment bank for all global M&A transactions, the No. 1 M&A advisor for the past seven consecutive years in the U.S., the No. 1 global restructuring advisor for the past eight consecutive years, and the No. 1 global M&A fairness opinion advisor over the past 20 years, all based on number of transactions and according to data provided by Refinitiv.

Financial Sponsors Coverage Group

Houlihan Lokey’s Financial Sponsors Group is one of the broadest and deepest in the world, with 30 senior bankers dedicated to the sponsors community. Our international team provides coverage to more than 750 private equity firms, hedge funds and family offices located in the United States, Europe and elsewhere. The group’s mandate is to provide best-in-class advice to private equity firms, hedge funds and other sources of alternative capital on mergers and acquisitions, valuations and capital structures.  Our clients value our independence, analytical rigor and deal savvy in various advisory functions, including:

• Selling companies to and for financials sponsors,

• Arranging debt and equity financings for their portfolio companies,

• Advising on complex financial restructurings and liability management issues,

• Rendering fairness and solvency opinions for the boards of directors of portfolio companies, and

• Valuing large and complex portfolios of illiquid securities.

Responsibilities

Vice Presidents work with experienced senior coverage officers both to provide coverage officer support on client initiatives and business unit analytics.  Vice Presidents will support senior coverage officers in their coverage responsibilities which includes new deal introductions, idea generation, portfolio reviews and other projects. This support role will evolve and grow over time and lead to more of a client facing role focused on business development and long-term relationship building.

Business unit analytics include analyzing the financial performance of the group on a monthly and quarterly basis, analyzing the firm’s level of success selling its different products to financial sponsors, preparing presentations for meetings with product group heads and our Board of Directors, and organizing and monitoring new product introductions and calling programs. 

The environment at Houlihan Lokey is collegial and entrepreneurial, and as such, rewards Vice Presidents with substantial responsibility and interaction with senior-level professionals. We are open to considering candidates at the Senior Associate level for this role.

Basic Qualifications

The environment at Houlihan Lokey is collegial entrepreneurial, and as such, rewards high performing team members that are driven to succeed with substantial responsibility. The ideal candidate should be motivated, creative and outgoing, and possess:

• At least five years of professional working experience

• At least two years of investment banking experience

• An undergraduate degree with academic distinction

Preferred Qualifications

• Extensive financial modeling experience and strong analytical abilities

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Strong interpersonal skills

• A very high degree of intellectual curiosity and the ability to think independently

• The ability to work cooperatively with all levels of staff

• The ability to manage multiple projects and hit deadlines in a highly organized manner

• An independent, solutions-focused mindset 

Salary Range

Houlihan Lokey is committed to providing its employees with an exciting career opportunity and competitive total compensation package, which may include other components such as discretionary incentive compensation. The firm’s good faith and reasonable estimate of the possib