2025 Financial Analyst

Business Unit:

Corporate Finance

Industry:

CM - Capital Markets Group

Houlihan Lokey, Inc. (NYSE:HLI) is a global investment bank with expertise in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, 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 AsiaPacific 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, the No. 1 M&A advisor for the past nine consecutive years in the U.S., the No. 1 global restructuring advisor for the past ten consecutive 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 (formerly Refinitiv).

Corporate Finance

The Houlihan Lokey Corporate Finance business works with a wide spectrum of companies, from mid-market privately owned enterprises to large multinational organizations. With a growing EMEA platform with nearly 400 Corporate Finance bankers in offices across the UK, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France, Sweden, Spain, Israel, the Netherlands, and Dubai, we have the breadth and targeted expertise to provide exceptional client service.

Capital Markets Advisory

Our Capital Markets Group operates within Corporate Finance and provides advice and financing placement skills to private equity, corporate clients and family-owned businesses. The team is now c. 40 people across debt and equity and located in London, Frankfurt, Paris, Milan and Dubai. As trusted advisors, we have the proven ability to engineer and execute financing solutions that are essential for growth and success and the preservation of value. The team has decades of combined experience and a track record in Europe of closing between 50 and 100 financing transactions a year. We advise on and arrange financings with a broad spectrum ranging from €20m to €2bn.

 Our team is an advisory only practice hence provides clients with pragmatic and independent solutions without typical balance sheet related conflicts of interest. This dedicated team of financial professionals handles a wide range of engagements encompassing leveraged buyouts, refinancings, recapitalizations, growth and strategic investment capital, loan amendments, and liability management.

Responsibilities/ Scope

As a Financial Analyst in the Capital Markets team, you will help provide support across transactions, gaining exposure to various debt products and financing structures, such as bank debt/senior loans, second-lien financings, unitranches, mezzanine debt and equity for a variety of situations, including growth capital, acquisition financing, refinancings and repricings, dividend recapitalizations, and special situations. Based in Frankfurt, your focus will be on European mid- to large-cap corporate and private equity transactions. You will work with a talented, dedicated staff of professionals who will give you broad exposure to the many different issues and concerns affecting companies and investors today.

You will research and analyse financial statements using financial models, general economic conditions, industry-specific developments, and investment attributes of publicly traded and private companies. You will also assist in preparing client ready presentations and process materials as well as co-ordinating client and lender calls, gaining live deal insights into what investment banking and the world of financing entails.

Houlihan Lokey provides a collegial, entrepreneurial work environment. We reward our Financial Analysts with substantial responsibilities, interaction with senior-level professionals, and live engagements.

The ideal candidate will have:

• A strong academic track record from a highly regarded university with a focus on finance, economics or business
• 0-3 years of relevant work experience (through full-time employment or internships), e.g., in the areas of debt advisory, credit analysis, debt capital markets, rating advisory, M&A, or leveraged finance, relevant financial modelling experience
• Solid understanding of corporate finance principles, debt markets, and capital structures
• Exceptional quantitative and analytical skills with a focus on accuracy and attention to detail
• Strong computer skills, especially MS Office applications such as Excel and PowerPoint
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Business-fluent proficiency in German and English (verbal and written)
• Ability to manage multiple projects under tight deadlines

Most importantly, we seek to attract dedicated, team-oriented candidates with a deep desire to win, a strong work ethic, and a willingness to work hard to achieve the highest standards of performance

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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