Presentations Specialist

Houlihan Lokey; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global investment bank is looking for a Presentations Specialist to join their London team. This full-time role involves producing high-quality investment banking presentations and documents, requiring advanced skills in Microsoft PowerPoint and familiarity with Adobe tools. The ideal candidate will have at least 2 years of experience in a similar role and will be expected to work during evening shifts in a hybrid work environment. Strong communication skills and the ability to work under pressure are essential.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience as a Presentations Specialist or similar capacity.
• Expert knowledge of Microsoft Office tools and Adobe products.
• Strong knowledge in creating and editing financial charts and documents.

Responsibilities

• Produce high-quality investment banking pitch books.
• Format general documents and spreadsheets.
• Create company and client-branded presentations and infographics.

Skills

Advanced Microsoft PowerPoint proficiency

Ability to work independently and collaboratively

Professional written and verbal communications

Research skills

Strong aptitude to acclimatize and learn quickly

Education

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

Tools

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Word

Excel

Adobe Acrobat Pro

Adobe Photoshop

InDesign

Illustrator

Job description

Business Unit: Presentations And Graphics

Industry: No Industry

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.

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 Studio is seeking a full time Presentations Specialist to join our London team in working evening shift (14:00 – 22:00) and serve as an integral team member in producing high quality investment banking pitch books, and formatting general documents and spreadsheets. The Presentations Specialist will primarily be working in Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, Excel and Adobe Acrobat Pro. This is a hybrid working role (minimum 2 days in the office per week).

Responsibilities

• Execution of primarily production tasks on firmwide and client branded PowerPoint presentations
• Apply and update templates to presentations with consistency and technical formatting
• Create company branded and client branded charts, graphs, tables, icons and other basic infographics
• Execute Client-branded presentation conversions, PDF to PPT conversions, basic animations, map recreations
• Perform photo re-touching and photo manipulation
• Intermediate data visualization and chart-building experience
• Format ad-hoc 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 production or document formatting requests

Basic Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience as a Presentations Specialist or similar capacity editing financial documents, spreadsheets and presentations
• Advanced Microsoft PowerPoint proficiency; including formatting text, creating slides, inserting images, charts, and graphs, applying animations and transitions, and mastering slide master and layout features
• 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 in creating and editing 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

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.