Job Description

Business Unit:

Corporate Finance

Industry:

Consumer 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

Houlihan Lokey has extensive expertise in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, activist shareholder and takeover defense, and other related advisory services for a broad range of U.S. and international clients. Our experience in M&A has earned us consistent recognition throughout the industry. In 2025, LSEG ranked our firm the No. 1 investment bank for all global M&A transactions.

Vice Presidents are critical leaders of deal teams and are integral for the training and development of junior bankers. Vice Presidents are expected to be day-to-day leaders of transactions and have the opportunity to deliver high levels of impact for our clients across all facets of a transaction. As such, this role calls for candidates that are highly self-motivated, collegial, poised, strategic thinkers, and proven leaders.

More specifically, Vice Presidents support the success of the team by:

• Leading the day-to-day execution of transactions

• Creating and assisting in the delivery of client presentations to support of new business development and transaction execution

• Preparing confidential memoranda, management presentations, marketing pitches, and other presentations

• Developing, analyzing, and explaining historical and projected financial information

• Coordinating and performing business due diligence

• Helping market and plan engagements

• Building relationships and maintaining direct contact with current and prospective clients

• Providing guidance, mentorship, and training to Associates and Financial Analysts

• Performing other administrative and operational duties as dictated by the group’s needs

Basic Qualifications:

• Advanced knowledge of accounting and finance

• 6+ years of relevant investment banking experience

• An undergraduate degree, including an exemplary academic record, from an accredited institution

• Strong analytical/quantitative and technical abilities

Preferred Qualifications:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Strong public speaking and presentation skills

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment managing multiple project deliverables simultaneously

• Extensive operational, financial modeling, and valuation experience

• Hands-on sell-side M&A experience

• Transaction experience in the Consumer Health space

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:

$250,000

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 and the location where this position may be filled.

Houlihan Lokey provides a competitive benefits package. Our current benefits offerings can be found here:

2026 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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