VP- Digital Value Creation-TAS India

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.

 Vice President, Digital Value Creation Group

• Overview
• Houlihan Lokey, Inc. (NYSE:HLI) is a global investment bank with expertise in mergers and acquisitions, capital solutions, financial restructuring, and financial and valuation advisory. Houlihan Lokey serves corporations, institutions, and governments worldwide with offices in the Americas, 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. The firm is the No. 1 investment bank for all global M&A transactions for the past two years, the No. 1 M&A advisor for the past 10 years in the U.S., the No. 1 global restructuring advisor for the past 11 years, and the No. 1 global M&A fairness opinion advisor over the past 25 years, all based on number of transactions and according to data provided by LSEG.

• Financial and Valuation Advisory
• Over the past 40 years, Houlihan Lokey has established one of the largest worldwide financial and valuation advisory practices. Our transaction expertise, leadership in the field of valuation, and objective approach to independent due diligence advice inspire confidence in the financial executives, boards of directors, special committees, retained counsel, investors, and business owners we serve. In 2020, Refinitiv (formerly known as Thomson Reuters) ranked us the No. 1 U.S. M&A fairness opinion advisor over the past 20 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.

• Transaction Advisory Services
• Houlihan Lokey’s Transaction Advisory Services (TAS) practice assists private equity and corporate clients with financial, IT and tax due diligence, business analytics, and technical accounting matters associated with corporate mergers, divestitures, and acquisitions (M&A). Drawing on Houlihan Lokey’s market leadership in middle-market M&A transactions, our due diligence experts provide candid, unbiased, and rigorous support on matters most impacting deal value, and assist investors in identifying and evaluating key value drivers and risk factors.
• TAS India
• TAS India covers Financial due diligence, Accounting and financial reporting and Digital value creation services. We have a highly integrated ‘one-team’ working model where TAS India team members are fully embedded into an engagement lifecycle - from client pitch to client discussions through closure. They have similar exposure to project complexities and client situations as their counterparts in the global TAS teams, and work in similar ownership and accountability construct. With a strong industry orientation and innovation-focused environment, we offer a unique proposition comprising best-in-class functional, industry and technology competencies along with an exposure to global M&A markets.

• Job Description
• TAS is seeking talented professionals to join our fast-growing Digital Value Creation group (DVC) at the Vice President level. DVC provides our clients value-creating insights from vast market, operational, and financial data. DVC professionals work closely with HL due diligence, valuation and investment banking teams alongside clients’ deal and operating teams. As a professional in the group, you will be teamed with highly talented and dedicated M&A professionals in various industry groups including Industrials, Consumer, Technology, Business Services and Financial Services. This opportunity provides you broad exposure to different transactional issues affecting businesses in an M&A environment.

This is a unique opportunity for someone with proficiency in data analytics along with experience in applying data analytics techniques to financial and operational analyses that is fundamental to an M&A process. DVC provides you ample exposure to the M&A and corporate finance industry and capital markets. You will further develop and extend your data analytics knowledge, and hone your interpersonal skills as you deliver valuable insights that derive transaction and strategic decision making for internal and external stakeholders.

• Responsibilities
• •Participate in buy-side and sell-side M&A engagements and data-focused operational reporting engagements
• •Lead engagements or substantial workstreams within an engagement, taking ownership of the execution, quality and timeliness of deliverable to clients
• •Day-to-day project management, ensuring progress in line with project plan and effective resource management; resolving bottlenecks and complex questions; identifying risks and delays; reporting and escalating issues as required; tracking budgets; etc.
• •Communicate directly and effectively with senior business executives and internal stakeholders, providing project updates, discussing questions and bottlenecks, and sharing points of view and recommendations as defined within project scope
• •Gather, evaluate, sanitize, and organize applicable meta data
• •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, profitability, and liquidity, and story-board key findings into a structured and comprehensible report
• •Identify key business risks and opportunities impacting business valuation
• •Be willing to learn and train peers on data analysis and visualization tools
• •Continuously develop industry knowledge and qualifications
• •Be able to work on and lead multiple assignments simultaneously
• •Support and actively participate in business development efforts
• •Review the work of junior team members, ensuring desired quality and insights, and providing timely feedback for their continuous learning
• •Manage a team of 2-3 Analysts and/or Associates, being responsible for their learning and professional development

• Basic (must-have) Qualifications
• •Bachelor’s degree in technology / computer science / accounting / finance or quantitative finance, or similar (with concentration in data analytics or anot