Financial Analyst - Corporate Finance (Oil & Gas)

Business Unit

Corporate Finance

Industry

Oil & Gas

Overview

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 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. Its transaction volumes provide differentiated, data-driven perspectives that help clients achieve their most critical goals.

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, offering access to financing in public and alternative capital markets through the issuance of debt, equity, or hybrid securities. In EMEA, the platform serves companies ranging from middle-market privately owned enterprises to large multinational organizations.

Energy Group

Houlihan Lokey’s Oil & Gas (O&G) Group provides investment banking advisory services to companies and investors operating in the Oil & Gas industry. The dedicated team of financial and technical professionals focuses primarily on large, complex transactions across the upstream, midstream, and downstream sectors, as well as molecule-related alternative energies. The O&G Group is a global team with dedicated industry bankers in Houston, Dallas, New York, London, Dubai, and Hong Kong, and regularly works on cross-border deals. It is a cross-product industry vertical.

Scope

The Oil & Gas team at Houlihan Lokey is looking to add a Financial Analyst in London.

The environment at Houlihan Lokey is collegial and entrepreneurial. Teamwork is essential to the firm’s success, and creativity and new ideas are encouraged. Analysts are given substantial responsibility and are encouraged to help grow the business.

Analysts work on transactions that provide exposure to various investment banking services, including M&A, private placements of debt and equity, refinancings, and leveraged buyouts.

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
• Supervise and train junior staff members
• Assist in planning of engagements

Requirements / 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 Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• Up to 1 year of full-time investment banking experience in Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) advisory
• Keen interest in the Oil and Gas sector
• 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 organized manner
• An independent, solutions-focused mindset
• An exceptional work ethic

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.