Business Unit:
Financial and Valuation Advisory
Industry:
Fund Opinions
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 all global M&A transactions for the past two consecutive years, the No. 1 M&A advisor for the past 10 consecutive years in the U.S., the No. 1 global restructuring advisor for the past 11 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 LSEG (formerly Refinitiv).
Job Purpose:
Our dedicated Fund Opinions (FO) group works with financial sponsors across a range of transactions including Continuation Vehicles, cross-fund transactions and portfolio company mergers. The team reviews the client’s transaction, analyses the applicable investment(s) and delivers fairness opinions and related valuation advisory services to assist its client’s transaction approval process and investor communications. The group’s clients include leading private equity, credit, venture capital, infrastructure and hedge funds.
The open position is for a Vice President (NYC or Chicago) who will be dedicated to executing client engagements as well as growing Houlihan Lokey’s Fund Opinions practice. As a Vice President, you will join a team that focuses on complex analytics, financial models and valuation across a wide range of industries and asset classes. The group frequently partners with other internal teams, including industry coverage groups and asset class specialists, to deliver fairness and valuation opinions as well as other advisory services to our clients.
Our FO team, part of the firm’s Financial Valuation Advisory (FVA) practice, is looking to add talented financial professionals at the Vice President level to focus on managing the execution of client engagements and building out the FO practice. While the primary execution and business development focus will be FO, all members of the FVA practice are expected to broadly facilitate our firm’s growth by cross selling other FVA, Corporate Finance, and Restructuring service offerings provided by Houlihan Lokey.
The FO-dedicated Vice President will be a fully integrated member of engagement teams. As a Vice President, primary activities will include project management and engagement execution: managing the day-to-day tasks of projects and serving as a principal contact with client personnel; leading diligence meetings; directing the efforts of Associates and Financial Analysts to perform financial analyses and prepare client deliverables; presenting deliverables both internally and externally to our clients. In addition, the Vice President position is expected to network with prospects to build revenue producing relationships and assist and drive other business development events and strategic initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Lead business and financial due diligence
• Conduct industry, competitor, and sub-sector research
• Perform complex financial analyses including valuation utilizing methods including comparable company analysis, precedent transactions, and discounted cash flow analysis
• Supervise and review deliverables on client engagements supporting advice and opinions
• Project management - including day to day tasks and coordination with clients on project updates and deadlines
• Prepare pitch materials and new proposals to clients
• Creative content development, thought leadership and collaboration across service lines
• Assist in business development initiatives
• Build relationships and maintain direct contact with current and prospective clients

Basic Requirements:

• An undergraduate degree in finance, accounting, economics or a related field
• 6-10 years of investment banking, valuation or related experience or MBA plus 3-6 years of relevant experience
• Strong accounting, finance, financial modeling and analytical abilities

Preferred Requirements:

• Ability to lead projects and client meetings
• Experience supervising associates and analysts on client engagements

Compensation and Benefits
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 possible salary range for this role at the time of posting is:
$145,000.00-$180,000.00
Actual salary at the time of hire may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate’s relevant qualifications, skills, and experience, as well as the service line and location where this position may be filled.
Houlihan Lokey provides a competitive benefits package. Our current benefits offerings can be found here:
2025 Benefits
We are an equal opportunity employer and 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.

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• Lead business and financial due diligence
• Conduct industry, competitor, and sub-sector research
• Perform complex financial analyses including valuation utilizing methods including comparable company analysis, precedent transactions, and discounted cash flow analysis
• Supervise and review deliverables on client engagements supporting advice and opinions
• Project management - including day to day tasks and coordination with clients on project updates and deadlines
• Prepare pitch materials and new proposals to clients
• Creative content development, thought leadership and collaboration across service lines
• Assist in business development initiatives
• Build relationships and maintain direct contact with current and prospective client