Business Unit:

Information Technology

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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.

Scope:

As a Service Support Engineer, you are a trusted technical partner and frontline problem-solver, providing high-quality IT support across all Houlihan Lokey applications, operating systems, and hardware. Your expertise in user support, troubleshooting, and service management enables you to resolve issues efficiently and ensure seamless day-to-day operations for employees at every level. Whether assisting users in person, over the phone, or remotely, you deliver a consistent, reliable support experience that strengthens productivity and minimizes downtime.

In this role, you will be based in the Dallas office and serve as a key support resource for all HL locations. You will focus primarily on general IT service desk functions—responding to incidents and requests, maintaining system readiness, and helping drive operational excellence across our global environment. Through strong technical knowledge, clear communication, and a commitment to service quality, you help ensure our technology ecosystem remains stable, secure, and responsive to business needs.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver best-in-class IT support to Houlihan Lokey colleagues, providing a consistent, high-quality, customer-focused experience with a strong local office presence and global alignment.

• Provide responsive support for incidents and service requests across hardware, software, and user access, both in person and remotely, minimizing disruption and improving productivity.

• Play an active role in Incident and Problem Management by identifying recurring issues, trends, and service impacts to help reduce repeat incidents and improve overall stability.

• Collaborate with Service Delivery and Engineering teams to perform root cause analysis (RCA), contribute to post-incident reviews, and support the delivery of long-term fixes and preventive solutions.

• Proactively monitor incident patterns and user feedback to identify systemic issues, maintain knowledge articles and known error records, and drive continuous service improvement.

• Build trusted relationships through professional, white-glove service by taking full ownership of issues and communicating clearly and empathetically throughout the resolution process.

• Install, configure, and support end-user hardware and peripherals, including laptops, workstations, mobile devices, printers, monitors, docking stations, and other accessories.

• Support core enterprise applications and platforms, including Windows OS, Microsoft 365, Exchange Online, Teams, AVD, VPN (Netskope), Adobe products, and firm-specific applications.

• Troubleshoot and resolve connectivity, remote access, and virtual environment issues, supporting users across office, remote, and mobile work environments.

• Provide hands-on Audio-Visual (AV) support for meetings, conferences, and client engagements, ensuring a seamless and professional experience.

• Perform basic Active Directory administration and manage hardware inventory and lifecycle processes, ensuring devices, access, and assets are properly maintained and controlled.

• Support office operations, projects, and vendor collaboration, including user moves, office changes, and contributions to ongoing improvements within the technology environment.

Soft Skills:

• Delivers empathetic, hospitality-focused support that makes customers feel heard, valued, and respected while creating positive and memorable experiences.

• Demonstrates strong communication skills, emotional intelligence, professionalism, and dependability, maintaining a calm and thoughtful approach in all interactions.

• Takes ownership of the customer experience, collaborates effectively with others, and continuously seeks opportunities to learn, improve, and deliver the best possible outcomes.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree (B.A./B.S.) from a four-year college or university in a related discipline; plus six or more years directly related work experience and/or training; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• The employee must have a thorough understanding and hands-on knowledge of hardware and software installation and problem resolution.

• Carry out duties with a minimum of direction and supervision and be able to perform each essential task satisfactorily.

• Strong communications skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous work experience in a financial institution environment is highly desirable.

• Possess strong analytical skills and the ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization may exist.

• Possess the ability to interpret various instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, and or schedule form.

Physical Demand:

The physical demands outlined below are representative of those required to successfully perform the essential functions of this position.

• While performing job duties, the employee is regularly required to use hands and fingers for handling or feeling, as well as to talk and hear.

• The employee frequently stands, walks, and sits.

• The employee must be able to regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

• This position requires specific vision abilities, including close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

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:

$87,000-$110,000

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, and 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

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.

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