2027 Summer Financial Analyst (Class of 2028), Corporate Valuation Advisory Services, Complex Securities - Multiple Locations
Houlihan Lokey · New York, United States +1 · 1d ago
Business Unit:
Financial And Valuation AdvisoryIndustry:
Corporate Valuation Advisory 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. To learn more about Houlihan Lokey, please visit HL.com.

Financial and Valuation Advisory
Over the past 50+ years, Houlihan Lokey has established one of the largest worldwide financial and valuation advisory practices. Our transaction expertise and leadership in the field of valuation inspire confidence in the financial executives, boards of directors, special committees, investors, and business owners we serve. In 2025, LSEG ranked us the No. 1 global M&A fairness opinion advisor over the past 25 years. Our stability, integrity, technical leadership, and global capabilities make us a trusted advisor for clients worldwide, across a wide range of services, including the Transaction Opinions, Fund Opinions, Transaction Advisory Services, Corporate Valuation Advisory Services, Portfolio Valuation, Real Estate Valuation and Advisory Services, and Dispute Resolution Consulting practices.

Job Purpose
As a Summer Financial Analyst in the Corporate Valuation Advisory Services (CVAS) practice’s Complex Securities team, you will join a small, specialized, and fast growing team serving corporate clients from a large variety of industries. You will collaborate with both junior and senior team members on client engagements to perform complex valuations of financial instruments (i.e. debt and derivatives) and create statistical analyses / models.
Key Responsibilities/Deliverables
- Develop quantitative models to value unique financial instruments
- Improve existing internal modelling processes
- Perform statistical and data analyses
- Present analyses and conclusions both internally and externally
Basic Qualifications
- Must be graduating between September 2027 – July 2028
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g. finance, statistics, mathematics, economics, engineering)
- Strong knowledge of financial instruments, derivatives valuation theory, and statistical methods
- Keen analytical capabilities with high attention to detail
- Proficient verbal and written communication skills
- Experience valuing financial instruments with non-linear payoffs including convertible bonds, warrants, derivatives, earn-outs, and complex capital structures using closed form solutions, binomial lattices, and Monte Carlo simulations in either Python, R, or Matlab
- Experience working with large data sets, performing statistical analyses in Python, and presenting results with data visualization software such as Tableau
- Demonstrated history of building and improving models and processes that automate routine calculations using Python and VBA
- Passion for financial markets and data analysis
Compensation and Benefits
Houlihan Lokey is committed to providing its employees with an exciting career opportunity and competitive total compensation package, which may include other components such as discretionary incentive compensation. The firm’s good faith and reasonable estimate of the possible salary range for this role at the time of posting is:

$80,000 - $120,000


Actual salary at the time of hire may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate’s relevant qualifications, skills, and experience, as well as the service line and location where this position may be filled.

Houlihan Lokey provides a competitive benefits package. Our current benefits offerings can be found here:
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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