Investment Banking Senior Associate | Business Services

Location: New York

## Investment Banking Senior Associate | Business Services Apply locations:
New York, NY, USAtime type:
Full time posted on:
Posted 3 Days Agotime left to apply:
End Date:
December 7, 2026 (30+ days left to apply) job requisition :
R3454
** Business Unit:
** Corporate Finance
** Industry:
** Business Services
** 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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** 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.
** Business Services
** Houlihan Lokey’s Business Services Group offers M&A advisory, capital raising, valuation, and corporate restructurings to public and private companies. We work with companies providing Environmental and Facility Services across a number of end markets and regularly collaborate with other Houlihan Lokey industry and product groups to bring the highest level of knowledge, services, and relationships to our clients.

Our team covers a broad array of sectors, with bankers dedicated to each of our primary coverage areas. We maintain deep, senior-level relationships with major strategic and financial buyers of Environmental and Facilities Services companies as well as large, public, and private company thought leaders within the industry.

As one of the leading M&A advisors in our sector, we help open doors to opportunities—whether our clients are seeking a strategic or financial partner in a change-of-control or minority-investment transaction.
** Responsibilities
* * Associates are primarily responsible for the creation and oversight of financial models, marketing materials, internal and external presentations, as well as performing research and various analyses in support of new business generation and the execution of M&A transactions.

Associates are afforded meaningful responsibility and are generally members of four-person deal teams, comprising a Managing Director, Vice President, Associate, and Financial Analyst.

As an Associate, you will be expected to:
* Prepare, analyze, and explain historical and projected financial information
* Coordinate and perform business due diligence and execute M&A transactions
* Prepare marketing materials, confidential information presentations, management presentations, and other presentations as needed
* Perform valuation and ad hoc financial analyses
* Assist in the marketing and execution of existing engagements
* Build relationships and maintain direct contact with clients, prospective clients, and professional advisors
* Communicate effectively with all members of the team, including the supervision and mentoring of junior staff members
** Qualifications
* * The environment at Houlihan Lokey is collegial entrepreneurial, and as such, rewards high-performing team members that are driven to succeed with substantial responsibility. The ideal candidate should be motivated, creative and outgoing, and possess:
* At least 4 years of investment banking or similar experience
* An undergraduate degree with academic distinction
* Advanced knowledge of accounting and finance
* Extensive financial modeling experience and strong analytical abilities
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills
* A very high degree of intellectual curiosity and the ability to think independently
* The ability to work…