Job Description

Business Unit:

Financial And Valuation Advisory

Industry:

Portfolio Valuation 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.

Financial and Valuation Advisory

Over the past 50+ years, Houlihan Lokey has established one of the largest worldwide financial and valuation advisory practices. Our transaction expertise and leadership in the field of valuation inspire confidence in the financial executives, boards of directors, special committees, investors, and business owners we serve. In 2025, LSEG ranked us the No. 1 global M&A fairness opinion advisor over the past 25 years. Our stability, integrity, technical leadership, and global capabilities make us a trusted advisor for clients worldwide, across a wide range of services, including the Transaction Opinions, Transaction Advisory Services, Corporate Valuation Advisory Services, Portfolio Valuation and Fund Advisory Services, Real Estate Valuation and Advisory Services, and Dispute Resolution Consulting practices.

Responsibilities & Deliverables:

• Partner with the MD to originate and manage technology and analytics driven advisory business in the Portfolio Valuations group
• Be ready to think out-of-the-box and on-your-feet to solve client problems with technology and data science
• Be equally comfortable pitching to clients, developing pitch materials, working with Data Scientists on proofs of concepts, liaising with our clients and our attorneys on contracts, and training and upskilling Data Scientists
• The role requires wearing multiple hats and being hands-on and being available as required
• This is NOT a Developer, Dev/Ops, Data Science or Data Engineering role. This role applies Data Science concepts to develop and support financial services advisory

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors and Master’s in Engineering, Math, Statistics or Physics from a top tier school with a 3.5+ GPA
• Minimum 6 years’ experience in a client-facing role, such as a Big 4 or a national firm
• Minimum 4 years professional experience managing Data Science and Analytics projects
• Expert knowledge of Excel, Visual Basic, Python, Snowflake and a Business Intelligence tool like Sigma or PowerBI

Preferred Qualifications:

• Financial Services or Capital Markets experience
• CFA or MBA
• Experience building wrappers around LLMs is a plus
• Some experience in a startup environment

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 - $225,000
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, 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:

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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