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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 department is seeking a full time Integrated Designer to join our team in London and serve as an integral team member in producing high quality investment banking pitchbooks, corporate decks, digital reports, PowerPoint templates and formatting general documents/graphics. The Integrated Designer will create designs across a range of formats using Microsoft PowerPoint as well as Adobe Creative Cloud - Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator. This is a hybrid working role (minimum 2 days in the office per week).

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Creative Lead on internal, external, event related, company/client branded ad-hoc projects
• Create digital and print designs from their brief to completion
• Design and execute PowerPoint pitchbooks, corporate decks, event presentations and other similar presentation design or document formatting requests
• Design print collateral ( coffee-table books , one-pagers, brochures, invitations, signage, and banners)
• Create/Format company/client branded general graphics (charts, graphs, tables, icons, diagrams)
• Create visual storytelling pieces such as data visualization and infographics
• Perform photo research and resizing
• Create mood boards to communicate early visual ideas and themes
• Design or recreate highly detailed and complex maps in isometric, 2D, illustrative styles (shale, oil, pipelines)
• Create interactive documents using a third-party content creation platform
• Create fully functional client branded PowerPoint templates
• Format Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents
• Build and style outlook emailing templates

Key Qualifications

• 5+years of experience as a 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 take ideas and think creatively to make professional, aesthetically pleasing layouts while maintaining company identity standards
• Ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced work environment
• Effectively manage workloads within agreed timescales
• Ability to make quick decisions and use your experience to anticipate problems and challenges before they happen
• Ability to work independently but also collaboratively as a team player and able to integrate with a diverse team when required
• Ability to work with a job ticketing system, work well under pressure and make quick sound decisions
• Proactively monitor output quality, accuracy and consistency
• Professional written and verbal communications skills

Preferred Qualifications

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

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.