Associate, Digital Value Creation

About the job

TAS is seeking talented professionals to join our fast-growing Digital Value Creation group (DVC) at the Associate level. DVC provides our clients value-creating insights from vast market, operational, and financial data. DVC professionals work closely with HL due diligence, valuation and investment banking teams alongside clients’ deal and operating teams. As a professional in the group, you will be teamed with highly talented and dedicated M&A professionals in various industry groups including Industrials, Consumer, Technology, Business Services and Financial Services. This opportunity provides you broad exposure to different transactional issues affecting businesses in an M&A environment. This is a unique opportunity for someone with proficiency in data analytics along with experience in applying data analytics techniques to financial and operational analyses that is fundamental to an M&A process. DVC provides you ample exposure to the M&A and corporate finance industry and capital markets. You will further develop and extend your data analytics knowledge, and hone your interpersonal skills as you deliver valuable insights that derive transaction and strategic decision making for internal and external stakeholders. Responsibilities • Participate in buy-side and sell-side M&A engagements and data-focused operational reporting engagements • Lead engagement tasks or workstreams within an engagement, taking ownership of the execution, and quality and timeliness of deliverable to clients • Communicate effectively with internal project teams as well as client teams, showing ability to put forth points of view and drive discussions towards required objectives • Gather, evaluate, sanitize, and organize applicable meta data • Prepare data workflows to clean and combine data from multiple sources • Prepare data visualizations and dashboards to deliver key insights • Generate insights on the drivers of business growth, profitability, and liquidity • Identify the key business risks and opportunities impacting business valuation • Be willing to learn and train peers in the advisory practice on data analysis and visualization tools • Continuously develop industry knowledge and qualifications • Be able to work on multiple assignments simultaneously • Support and actively participate in business development efforts • Review the work of team members to ensure desired quality and insights

Requirements

• data analytics
• M&A
• corporate finance
• financial analytics
• data visualization

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in technology / computer science / accounting / finance or quantitative finance, or similar (with concentration in data analytics or another quantitative field)

Preferred Technologies

• data analytics
• M&A
• corporate finance
• financial analytics
• data visualization

About the company

Houlihan Lokey, Inc. (NYSE:HLI) is a global investment bank with expertise in mergers and acquisitions, capital solutions, 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 years, the No. 1 M&A advisor for the past 10 years in the U.S., the No. 1 global restructuring advisor for the past 11 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.