Presentations Designer

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. Scope Houlihan Lokey's Presentations Design team is seeking a full‑time Presentations Designer to join our team in Chicago, 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 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 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 Implement design principles such as layout, alignment, color theory, typography, and visual hierarchy to create visually appealing and effective presentations Perform photo retouching 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 Basic 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 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 communication 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 Compensation And Benefits 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 $60,000 – $70,000. 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, experience and the location where this position may be filled. Houlihan Lokey provides a competitive benefits package. Our current benefits offerings can be found here: 2026 Benefits Equal Opportunity Employment 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr