Financial Analyst - Corporate Finance (Industrials M&A)

Overview

Houlihan Lokey, Inc. (NYSE: HLI) is a leading global investment bank delivering independent strategic and financial advice to corporations, financial sponsors, and governments. With 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. The firm’s transaction volumes provide differentiated, data-driven perspectives that help clients achieve their most critical goals. More information is available at HL.com.

Corporate Finance

The Houlihan Lokey Corporate Finance business provides expertise in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, activist shareholder and takeover defense, and other related advisory services for a broad range of clients. The firm also engineers and executes financing solutions essential for growth and success, with access to financing in public and alternative capital markets through the issuance of debt, equity, or hybrid securities. In EMEA, the team serves companies ranging from middle-market privately owned enterprises to large multinational organizations, supported by a growing platform of professionals and offices across the region.

Industrials

Houlihan Lokey’s Industrials Group has earned a reputation for providing superior service and achieving outstanding results in M&A advisory, capital raising, restructuring, and valuation.

Transaction quality and client work are supported by a culture in which senior team members are highly engaged in executing client projects, and by experience as leaders in the market for over a decade, providing professionals exposure to a variety of situations and challenges. In 2025, the Industrials Group was ranked as the No. 1 M&A advisor for global Industrials transactions under $5 billion. With a team of almost 60 bankers across Europe, it is an exciting time to join the growing Industrials team.

Scope

The Industrials team at Houlihan Lokey is looking to add a Financial Analyst in London.

The environment is collegial and entrepreneurial. Teamwork is essential, and creativity and new ideas are encouraged.

Responsibilities

• Prepare, analyze, 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, prospective clients, and professional advisors
• Assist in planning of engagements

Requirements and Qualifications

The ideal candidate thinks strategically, is motivated, detail-oriented, creative, outgoing, and possesses excellent quantitative skills. If you have the following qualifications and experience, the firm would like to hear from you:

• 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 is favourable
• 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 statement 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 meet deadlines in a highly organised manner
• An independent, solutions-focused mindset
• An exceptional work ethic
• Fluency in a European language is strongly favourable (e.g., French, German, Spanish, Italian)

Equal Opportunity Employer

Houlihan Lokey is an equal opportunity employer. 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.