Business Unit:

Presentations and Graphics

Industry:

CORP - Corporate

Overview

Houlihan Lokey (NYSE:HLI) is a global investment bank with expertise in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, financial restructuring, and valuation. The firm serves corporations, institutions, and governments worldwide with offices in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific region. Independent advice and intellectual rigor are hallmarks of the firm’s commitment to client success across its advisory services. Houlihan Lokey is the No. 1 M&A advisor for the past five consecutive years in the U.S., the No. 1 global restructuring advisor for the past six consecutive years, and the No. 1 global M&A fairness opinion advisor over the past 20 years, all based on number of transactions and according to data provided by Refinitiv (formerly Thomson Reuters).

Scope

Houlihan Lokey’s Presentations and Graphics department is seeking a full time Senior Presentations Designer to join our team in Chicago and serve as an integral team member in producing high quality investment banking pitch books, and formatting general documents and spreadsheets. The Senior Presentations Designer will primarily be working in Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, Excel and Adobe Acrobat Pro. This is a hybrid working role.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Presentations Designer, you will:-

• Play a pivotal role in fostering our teams growth by supporting local teams on design and production projects, while seamlessly collaborating with global workflows to drive success
• Work closely with the leadership team to help market our service capabilities with local teams
• Responsible for assisting with planning and managing more design related projects from local teams
• Design and execute PowerPoint pitch books and client branded presentations
• Apply and update templates to presentations with consistency and technical formatting
• Create company branded and custom charts, graphs, tables, icons and other infographics
• Create fully functional client PowerPoint templates
• Perform photo re-touching and photo manipulation
• Perform Logo creation, recreation or vectorization
• Design or recreate highly detailed and complex maps (shale, oil, pipelines)
• Design print collateral (invitations, signage, and banners)
• Proactive raising of creative ideas or emerging trends in line with business/department objectives
• Format Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents
• Build and style Word templates
• Setup and run mail merges (badges, labels, letters, and cards)
• Work with creating, combining, editing, watermarking, redacting and optimizing PDF documents
• Other similar presentation design or document formatting requests

Basic Qualifications

• 5+years of experience as a Senior Presentations Designer or similar creative role
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, Excel (non-technical), and Adobe Acrobat Pro
• Strong knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite
• A strong understanding of design for both print and digital
• Strong conceptual skills, knowledge and experience designing page layouts, infographics, financial charts, tables, and graphs
• Ability to work independently but also collaboratively as a team player and able to integrate with a diverse team when required
• Ability to take ideas and think creatively to make professional, aesthetically pleasing layouts while maintaining company identity standards
• Ability to work with a job ticketing system, work well under pressure and make quick sound decisions
• Professional written and verbal communications skills
• Effectively manage workloads within agreed timescales
• Be responsible for more conceptual design led task when opportunities arise
• Proactively monitor output quality, accuracy and consistency

Preferred Qualifications

• Preferred Bachelor’s Degree in Communications, Marketing, Graphics, Business or related field

Salary Range

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:

$32.00-$37.00

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 and the location where this position may be filled.

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.