Financial Analyst - Corporate Finance (Digital Infrastructure M&A)

Business Unit:

Corporate Finance

Industry:

Technology

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. To learn more about Houlihan Lokey, please visit HL.com.

Corporate Finance

The Houlihan Lokey Corporate Finance business has extensive expertise in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, activist shareholder and takeover defense, and other related advisory services for a broad range of clients. In addition, we have the proven ability to engineer and execute financing solutions that are essential for growth and success and offer access to financing in the public and alternative capital markets through the issuance of debt, equity, or hybrid securities. In EMEA, we work with a wide spectrum of companies, from middle-market privately owned enterprises to large multinational organizations. With a growing platform of Corporate Finance professionals and offices across the region, in addition to our global reach and in-depth knowledge across a broad range of industries, we have the breadth and targeted expertise to provide exceptional client service.

Digital Infrastructure, Technology

The Digital Infrastructure team at Houlihan Lokey sits within our global Technology business, where our London-based team cover best-in-market Digital Infrastructure transactions across Europe. We have significant coverage and expertise in asset-heavy verticals like Fibre, Data Centres, and Towers, as well as asset-lite topics like Cloud Communications and ICT Services.

In 2025, our Technology team was ranked the No.1 M&A advisor for all global Technology transactions.  With a team of around 200 bankers globally, it is a very exciting time to join the team.

Scope

The Digital Infrastructure team at Houlihan Lokey are looking to add a Financial Analyst in London.

The environment at Houlihan Lokey is both collegial and entrepreneurial. Teamwork is essential to the firm’s success. At the same time, creativity and new ideas are encouraged.

As a Financial Analyst, you will:

• Prepare, analyse and help explain historical and projected financial information

• Create financial models

• Coordinate and perform business due diligence

• Prepare confidential information memoranda, management presentations, marketing pitches and other presentations

• Conduct research on sectors, companies and potential buyers

• Value companies and businesses

• Build relationships and maintain direct contact with clients and prospective clients and professional advisors

• Assist in planning of engagements

Requirements and Qualifications

The ideal candidate thinks strategically, is motivated, detail oriented, creative, outgoing, and possesses excellent quantitative skills. If you have the following qualifications & experience, we’d love to hear from you:

• Strong academic track record and achieved at least a 2:1 Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent)

• 1-2 years of full-time investment banking experience in Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A). Experience in the TECH/Digital Infrastructure sector is favourably regarded

• Demonstrable experience in executing sell-side transactions

• Strong Excel and financial modelling skills

• Strong analytical abilities and knowledge of accounting and applied financial theory

• Excellent understanding of financial statements analysis with the ability to work through key assumptions, implicit caveats, and limitations

• An excellent understanding of financial valuation theory, methodologies, and applications

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Demonstrated ability to work cooperatively with team members

• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment, manage multiple projects and hit deadlines in a highly organised manner

• An independent, solutions-focused mind-set

• An exceptional work ethic

• Fluency in a European languages is strongly favourable (for example French, German, Spanish, Italian)

Note to External Recruiters / Search Firms: Houlihan Lokey does not accept unsolicited resumes and will not pay for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume. Any unsolicited resumes received will not be considered as a valid submission

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.