Early Careers Recruiter - Financial Restructuring

Business Unit

Financial Restructuring Group

Industry

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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).

Financial Restructuring

Houlihan Lokey has the largest, most experienced worldwide financial restructuring practice of any Investment Banking firm, with over 300 professionals located in offices across the globe. In 2022, we worked on more than 125 restructuring-related transactions on behalf of companies, their creditors and shareholders, and other constituents. Houlihan Lokey has advised on more than 1,500 restructuring transactions, with aggregate debt claims in excess of $3.0 trillion.

Our group employs an interdisciplinary approach to engagements and is accustomed to evaluating complex, highly leveraged situations in short timeframes. We are also a recognized leader in achieving merger and acquisition transactions for distressed companies.

Scope

Houlihan Lokey is seeking an Early Careers Recruiter for its Financial Restructuring business in the United States. Covering New York, Chicago & Minneapolis. In this 360-degree role, you will hold responsibility for the Early Career programs within Houlihan Lokey’s Financial Restructuring business in the aforementioned offices.

Responsibilities

• Working with the relevant teams to ensure a smooth transition after offer through to onboarding
• Close liaison with other Houlihan Lokey divisions including but not limited to Corporate Finance
• Overseeing the design, development and delivery of annual early careers recruitment hiring initiatives including the A-Z of processes
• Key involvement with Houlihan Lokey’s annual Global graduate Training Program (July-August)
• Establishing and maintaining excellent relationships with key business stakeholders of all levels, acting as their Early Careers recruitment expert and providing advice and guidance as well as market intelligence
• Overall responsibility for the delivery of early careers programs and initiatives across Houlihan Lokey’s Financial Restructuring business (New York, Chicago & Minneapolis)
• Strategically leading the development and enhancement of early careers programs across Summer Analyst, Graduate and MBA programs
• Championing DEI efforts, strategies and projects in tandem with colleagues
• Ensuring the Workday ATS is kept up to date as required at all times
• Be commercially astute and manage expenses, external partnering fees and general business recruitment costs sensitively and accurately
• School event management (Campus Season presentations, Banker liaison)
• Working closely with Early Careers and other Talent Acquisition colleagues
• Overseeing and managing our schools strategy and school relationships to drive applications to such programs
• Taking ownership of the candidate experience including offer process management

Qualifications/Requirements

• Strong spoken and written communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills and an ability to develop and maintain professional relationships at all levels
• Experience of organizing and managing assessment centers
• Experience developing a strategy and managing a busy events schedule for candidate/school outreach
• Experience in an Early Careers recruitment is a pre-requisite, preferred candidates will have Investment Banking or Financial Services experience though this is not essential
• Experience managing high volume early careers recruitment
• Demonstrable experience managing projects with multiple requirements, dependencies and stakeholders
• Prior ATS experience is preferred, Workday experience will be advantageous
• Experience of running early careers programs. Preferred candidates will have also operated in the MBA space

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.

Salary Range

Role

The firm’s good faith and reasonable estimate of the possible salary range for this role at the time of posting is

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.

$90,000.00-$115,000.00

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.