Presentations Designer

: 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 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 Presentations Designer will primarily be working in Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, Excel and Adobe Acrobat Pro. This is a hybrid working role. Responsibilities As a Presentations Designer, you will:-

• 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 branded 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)
• 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
• Be involved in redlining documents
• Other similar presentation design or document formatting requests

Basic Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience as a Presentations Specialist or similar capacity editing financial documents, spreadsheets and presentations
• Expert knowledge of Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, Excel (non-technical), and Adobe Acrobat Pro
• Intermediate knowledge of Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator
• Strong knowledge and experience designing infographics, financial charts, tables and graphs
• Ability to work independently on a project or collaboratively as a team player and able to integrate with a diverse team with varying opinions and ideas
• 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
• Flexible and open to changing priorities and managing multiple tasks simultaneously within tight deadlines
• Research skills - know the places to look and manage time spent efficiently
• Strong aptitude to acclimatize and learn quickly

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: $24.00-$32.00 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.