Presentations Designer

Job Description

Overview

Presentations And Graphics

General

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.

Scope

Houlihan Lokey's Presentations Design Team is seeking a full-time Presentations Designer to join our team in LA, with a primary focus on conceptualizing and designing high-impact investment banking pitch books. The ideal candidate will play a key role in crafting visually compelling presentations, as well as ensuring the consistency and quality of document formatting across Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and Adobe Acrobat Pro. While production and formatting tasks are part of the role, emphasis is placed on innovative design and creative input. This position is hybrid, requiring a minimum of 2 days in the office per week.

Responsibilities

As a Presentations Designer, you will:-
Design and execute PowerPoint pitch books and client presentations
Apply and update client templates to presentations with consistency and technical formatting
Create company branded and client charts, graphs, tables, icons and other infographics
Create fully functional client branded PowerPoint templates
Implementation of design principles; such as layout, alignment, color theory, typography, and visual hierarchy to create visually appealing and effective presentations
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
Other similar presentation design or document formatting requests

Qualifications

2+ years of experience as a Presentation Designer or similar capacity designing and editing financial documents, spreadsheets and presentations
Expert knowledge of Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, Excel (non-technical), and Adobe Acrobat Pro
Advanced 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

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