Associate, Portfolio Valuation and Fund Advisory Services – Multiple Locations

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.

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Business Unit: Financial And Valuation Advisory

Industry: Portfolio Valuation

Within our Portfolio Valuation practice, our clients include many of the world’s largest hedge funds, private equity funds, direct lending funds, business development companies, among other asset managers, and we advise them on the valuations of illiquid debt, equity and complex securities to meet investor and regulatory financial reporting requirements. Our market-leading practice has a strong reputation with regulators, auditors, and investors.

We rapidly mobilize the right team for the job, drawing on our expertise in a wide variety of asset classes and industries, along with our firm’s real-world transaction experience and market knowledge.

We offer a unique opportunity to work on a wealth of projects that provide exposure to various financial and valuation advisory challenges. As an Associate in our Portfolio Valuation Practice, you will play a key role on our engagement teams, which typically comprise at least one Managing Director, Vice President, Associate and one or more Financial Analysts. Your primary activities will include valuing debt, equity and structured securities;

presenting analyses and conclusions internally to review committees and externally to the senior management and boards of directors of clients and to fiduciaries; designing and drafting client deliverables; constructing and reviewing valuation and other financial models; performing financial statement, industry and other quantitative and qualitative assessments; attending due diligence meetings; communicating with client personnel; assisting with sales and marketing initiatives;

and directing the efforts of financial analysts.

• Supporting portfolio valuation teams, which provide valuations of illiquid debt and equity securities held by hedge funds, private equity funds, and business development companies in connection with fair value reporting of the funds’ assets to investors.
• Assisting in the preparation of fee proposals to clients, including scoping discussions, pitch materials, and internal engagement pricing committee memoranda.
• Participating in deal team brainstorming discussions, preparing information request lists, designing and drafting client deliverables.
• Reviewing client investment memoranda, board of directors’ presentations, specific debt and equity agreements, and financial models to develop an understanding of the company or securities being analyzed.
• Directing the efforts of financial analysts and checking their work product to ensure the delivery of an accurate and thorough work product within the required timeframe.
• Reviewing and compiling published financial information, such as public company filings, press releases, reports from published research analysts, and Bloomberg data across a wide range of industries and sectors.
• Assisting in the preparation of pitch materials and information request lists to clients.
• Participating in telephonic and in-person due diligence meetings/discussions, communicating with clients and responding to auditor questions regarding valuation analyses prepared by Houlihan Lokey.
• Identifying relevant comparable public companies and M&A transactions within parameters established by FVA project teams, based upon information services such as S&P Capital IQ and Bloomberg, along with knowledge of the appropriate SIC and other methods, as appropriate.
• Researching and providing information on general economic…