Summer 2025 Financial Analyst (Class of 2026) – Transaction Advisory Services - Accounting and Financial Reporting

Business Unit:

Financial and Valuation Advisory

Industry:

TAS - Transaction Advisory Services

Basic Qualifications

• Accounting majors - Master or Bachelor of Accountancy (or dual accounting and finance majors) with a graduation date between December 2025 and June 2026

• Coursework in accounting and finance, MUST BE eligible for CPA licensure upon graduation

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong analytical abilities and financial and computer skills (Excel / PowerPoint in particular)

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• A demonstrated ability to work cooperatively and be a team player

• Basic knowledge of US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles

Overview

Houlihan Lokey’s Transaction Advisory Services group is made up of former Big Four CPAs and accounting professionals working across all our industry verticals. Drawing on Houlihan Lokey’s market leadership in middle-market M&A transactions, our Accounting and Financial Reporting Advisory team provides candid, unbiased, and rigorous support on the accounting and financial matters most impacting deal value.  Our Accounting and Financial Reporting Advisory team works closely with clients through their strategic deal-making financial reporting requirements. Our specialists have a deep knowledge of deals, sectors, and technical accounting matters. This enables them to understand the challenges clients face, including:

• Capital raises, including IPOs, debt offerings and private placements

• Domestic and cross-border buy-side and sell-side M&A transactions; and

• Financial restructurings and bankruptcies.

Scope of Internship

• Team with a highly talented and dedicated group of M&A and Advisory professionals, providing you with 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, gaining 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.

Responsibilities – Accounting and Financial Reporting

• 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

• 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

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

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

Houlihan Lokey Overview

Houlihan Lokey (NYSE:HLI) is a global investment bank with expertise in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, financial restructuring, and valuation. 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 M&A advisor for the past six consecutive years in the U.S., the No. 1 global restructuring advisor for the past seven 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 & Valuation and Advisory Overview

Over the past 50 years, Houlihan Lokey has established one of the largest worldwide financial and valuation advisory practices. Our transaction expertise and leadership in the field of valuation inspire confidence in the financial executives, boards of directors, special committees, retained counsel, investors, and business owners we serve. In 202