Integrated Designer

Business Unit: Presentations And Graphics

Industry: No Industry

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.

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Houlihan Lokey’s Presentations Department is seeking a full time Integrated Designer to join our team in Chicago and serve as an integral team member in producing high quality digital reports, corporate and marketing decks, investment banking pitchbooks, PowerPoint templates, infographics and formatting general documents/graphics. The Integrated Designer will create designs across a range of formats using mostly Microsoft Power Point as well as Adobe Creative Cloud - Photoshop, and Illustrator, and especially InDesign.

This position is hybrid, requiring a minimum of 2 days in the office per week, based in Chicago reporting into the Design Manager. Adherence to company policies, punctuality, and effective communication are essential. Regular updates and proactive communication will be expected to ensure alignment, and guidance will be provided as needed.

You should be able to display a creative and wide-ranging design portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute seasonal marketing reports, pitchbooks, corporate decks, event presentations and other similar presentation design or document formatting requests in Power Point
• Design and execute whitepapers in In Design
• Work on internal, external, event related, company/client branded ad-hoc digital and print projects such as invitations, emailing, one-pagers, brochures, booklets, invitations, signage, and banners
• Create digital and print designs from their brief to completion
• Manage print production with internal reprographics team
• Design/format event collaterals such as information walls, agenda, itinerary
• Create/Format company/client branded general graphics (charts, graphs, tables, icons, diagrams)
• Create visual storytelling pieces such as data visualization and infographics
• Perform photo research and resizing
• Editing imagery to fit the purpose and scaling using Photoshop
• Create fully functional client branded PowerPoint templates
• Create mood boards to communicate early visual ideas and themes
• Design or recreate highly detailed and complex maps (shale, oil, pipelines)
• Build and style outlook emailing templates or email banners
• Be present in the office for engagement with internal business partners
• Attend creative brief meetings with internal business partners and external clients
• Track assigned work on project tracker and coordinate with the Project Coordinators when needed.

Key Qualifications

The ideal candidate will be an enthusiastic creative team member with:

• 5+ years of experience as a Graphic Designer, Presentations Designer or similar creative role
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft PowerPoint and Adobe Creative Suite
• Good knowledge of Word, Excel (non-technical), and Adobe Acrobat Pro
• A strong understanding of design for both print and digital
• Strong conceptual skills, knowledge and experience designing page layouts, infographics, financial charts, tables, and graphs
• Expertise in taking ideas and thinking creatively to make professional, aesthetically pleasing design works while maintaining company identity standards
• Ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced financial environment
• Ability to manage several projects at once and deliver within agreed timelines
• Ability to work well under pressure, make quick sound decisions and use your experience to anticipate problems and challenges before they happen
• Ability to work independently but also collaboratively as a team player and able to integrate with a diverse team when required
• Ability to work with a…