Financial Analyst - Power & Utilities, Dallas
Business Unit: Financial Restructuring Group
Industry: POW - Power & Utilities
Overview
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 Asia-Pacific region.
Power & Utilities Group
Houlihan Lokey’s growing Power & Utilities (“P&U”) Group provides a unique opportunity to gain valuable experience in both sell-side and buy-side M&A and bespoke capital markets activities, as well as the largest and most complex restructuring transactions in the power industry. The P&U Group has global coverage responsibilities for the firm’s investment banking activities in the power sector, including significant sell-side and buy-side M&A mandates for large renewable projects, merchant energy producers and IPPs, power & gas retailers and investor owned utilities.
Responsibilities include:
- Advising boards of directors, equity sponsors, owners, investors and other stakeholders of merchant power producers, renewable energy companies, IPPs, retailers and utilities on the evaluation, marketing, and execution of various transactions
- Performing all pertinent financial analyses, including with respect to:
- Valuations (discounted cash flow, LBO, trading comparables, precedent transactions, etc.)
- Financing and debt capacity analyses
- Recovery waterfalls, and recovery and equity split analyses
- Returns / IRR analyses
- Preparation of marketing materials, pitches, teasers, and various presentations
- Interfacing with the other industry professionals and consultants in evaluating power and utility assets
- Supporting ongoing analyses of recent events, transactions and trends within the power and utility sector
Associates are typically members of deal teams comprising at least one Managing Director, Vice President and Financial Analyst.
Basic Qualifications
The ideal candidate should be motivated, creative, and outgoing, and should possess strong skills in financial analysis. Candidates must have a strong knowledge of accounting and applied financial theory, keen analytical capabilities, and excellent verbal and written communications skills.
Our team is looking for candidates with qualifications that include:
- At least 12 months of investment banking, consulting, investment management, restructuring advisory or similar experience.
- Experience in unregulated or regulated U.S. power markets, power project finance, trading/marketing, or corporate finance viewed favorably
- Experience in or knowledge of the renewable power industry and/or ongoing energy transition in the U.S. is a plus
Preferred Qualifications
- B.A. or B.S. in Finance, Accounting, Business or Applied Economics and / or course work in accounting and finance
- Fundamental understanding of valuation theory, methodologies, and applications
- Strong financial and computer skills
- Demonstrated ability to work cooperatively with all levels of staff
- Strong analytical abilities, including financial modeling skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- An advanced level of attention to detail
Salary Range
Houlihan Lokey is committed to providing its employees with an exciting career opportunity and competitive total compensation package. The firm’s good faith and reasonable estimate of the possible salary range for this role at the time of posting is: $105,000.00-$125,000.00.
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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