What are the responsibilities and job description for the Vice President, Transaction Advisory Services, Digital Value Creation (Business Analytics) - Dallas or Chicago position at Houlihan Lokey?
Business Unit:
Financial And Valuation Advisory
Industry:
Transaction 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, Transaction Advisory Services, Corporate Valuation Advisory Services, Portfolio Valuation and Fund Advisory Services, Real Estate Valuation and Advisory Services, and Dispute Resolution Consulting practices.
Houlihan Lokey’s Transaction Advisory Services (TAS) practice is seeking a Vice President to join our fast-growing Digital Value Creation group (DVC). DVC provides key insights to our clients by leveraging financial, operational, and third-party data.
DVC professionals work closely with our due diligence and investment banking teams. As a professional in the group, you will be teamed with highly talented and dedicated M&A professionals. This opportunity provides you broad exposure to different transactional issues affecting businesses in an M&A environment.
Responsibilities
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:
$170,000 - $200,000
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:
2026 Benefits
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.
Financial And Valuation Advisory
Industry:
Transaction 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, Transaction Advisory Services, Corporate Valuation Advisory Services, Portfolio Valuation and Fund Advisory Services, Real Estate Valuation and Advisory Services, and Dispute Resolution Consulting practices.
Houlihan Lokey’s Transaction Advisory Services (TAS) practice is seeking a Vice President to join our fast-growing Digital Value Creation group (DVC). DVC provides key insights to our clients by leveraging financial, operational, and third-party data.
DVC professionals work closely with our due diligence and investment banking teams. As a professional in the group, you will be teamed with highly talented and dedicated M&A professionals. This opportunity provides you broad exposure to different transactional issues affecting businesses in an M&A environment.
Responsibilities
- Participate in buy-side and sell-side M&A diligence engagements and separate data-focused engagements
- Communicate directly with senior business executives and internal stakeholders
- Gather, evaluate, sanitize, and organize datasets
- Prepare data workflows to clean and combine data from multiple sources
- Prepare data visualizations and dashboards to deliver key insights
- Generate insights on the drivers of business growth, margin sustainability, and profitability
- Identify the key business risks and opportunities impacting business valuation
- Prepare relevant analyses including: price-volume analysis, customer cohort analysis, and customer order analysis
- Be willing to learn and train peers in the advisory practice on data analysis and visualization tools
- Continuously develop industry knowledge and qualifications
- Train, develop, mentor, and lead Financial Analysts and Associate team members
- Prepare marketing materials and participate in business development activities
- Work on multiple assignments simultaneously
- 5-7 years of transaction services experience in Data Analytics or a combination of Data Analytics and Financial Due Diligence
- Strong command of Tableau, Power BI (DAX), or both
- Strong command of Alteryx, Dataiku, or equivalent data prep tool
- Strong command of Microsoft Excel and Powerpoint
- Strong analytical abilities
- Prior experience with one or more AI LLM tools—ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini
- Exceptional work ethic, high motivation, and a demonstrated ability and desire to work cooperatively with team members and client professionals
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- A demonstrated ability to work cooperatively and be a team player
- Ability and willingness to travel when required
- Strong academic performance, professional achievement, and client service excellence
- Experience in, or a working knowledge of Python, SQL, R, VBA, Snowflake, or Google Cloud Platform is a plus
- Experience in Claude Code or OpenAI Codex is a plus
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:
$170,000 - $200,000
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:
2026 Benefits
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 : $170,000 - $200,000