Financial Analyst - Corporate Finance (Industrials M&A)

Business Unit:

Corporate Finance

Industry:

Industrials

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 uniquely 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. Our unmatched transaction volumes provide differentiated, data-driven perspectives that help our clients achieve their most critical goals. To learn more about Houlihan Lokey, please visit HL.com.

Corporate Finance

The Houlihan Lokey Corporate Finance business has extensive expertise in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, activist shareholder and takeover defense, and other related advisory services for a broad range of clients. In addition, we have the proven ability to engineer and execute financing solutions that are essential for growth and success and offer access to financing in the public and alternative capital markets through the issuance of debt, equity, or hybrid securities. In EMEA, we work with a wide spectrum of companies, from middle-market privately owned enterprises to large multinational organizations. With a growing platform of Corporate Finance professionals and offices across the region, in addition to our global reach and in-depth knowledge across a broad range of industries, we have the breadth and targeted expertise to provide exceptional client service.

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.

Our transaction quality and client work benefit from our company culture, where the senior team are highly engaged in the execution of client projects, and from our experience as leaders in the market for over a decade, which has given our professionals valuable exposure to a variety of situations and challenges. In 2025, our 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 our growing Industrials team.

Scope

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

The environment at Houlihan Lokey is both collegial and entrepreneurial. Teamwork is essential to the firm’s success. At the same time, creativity and new ideas are encouraged.

As a Financial Analyst, you will:

Prepare, analyse 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 and 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 & experience, we’d love 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 favourable regarded

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 statements analysis with the ability to work through key assumptions, implicit caveats, and limitations

An 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 hit deadlines in a highly organised manner

An independent, solutions-focused mind-set

An exceptional work ethic

Fluency in a European languages is strongly favourable (for example French, German, Spanish, Italian)

Note to External Recruiters / Search Firms: Houlihan Lokey does not accept unsolicited resumes and will not pay for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume. Any unsolicited resumes received will not be considered as a valid submission

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