HCVT’s Advisory team partners with business owners, private equity firms, and corporate management teams to navigate complex transactions and strategic decisions. We provide end-to-end support across the transaction lifecycle, including strategic alternatives analysis, financial modeling, valuation, deal structuring, and negotiation support for both buy-side and sell-side engagements. Our team works closely with clients to evaluate potential acquisitions or divestitures, analyze transaction economics and synergies, and prepare financial analyses that inform key investment decisions. By combining deep accounting and finance expertise with rigorous market and valuation analysis, we help clients mitigate risk, maximize value, and execute transactions with confidence.
As an M&A Advisory Intern, you will gain hands-on exposure to middle-market buy-side and sell-side transactions across the full M&A lifecycle, from initial evaluation through deal execution and close. Interns work directly with experienced professionals on live client engagements, contributing to financial analyses, valuation work, and transaction deliverables that support real investment and strategic decisions.
This role is designed for students who are intellectually curious, analytically strong, and eager to develop a deep understanding of how transactions are evaluated, structured, and executed in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
Apply today and find out why so many come for the challenge—and stay for the experience. We look forward to meeting you!
As an M&A Advisory Intern, you will be responsible for the following:
- Support Advisory engagement teams on mergers and acquisitions, valuation, and strategic finance projects for middle-market and growth-oriented clients.
- Assist with buy-side and sell-side transaction engagements, including financial analysis, evaluating offers, analyzing deal structures, and supporting execution from letter of intent through close.
- Build and analyze financial models and transaction analyses, including historical performance, projections, scenario analysis, and modeling related to revenue, EBITDA, and cash flow.
- Perform company and industry research, analyze financial statements, and develop comparable company and precedent transaction analyses used in transaction and valuation engagements.
- Assist in preparing client-ready deliverables such as financial analyses, valuation materials, presentations, and reports that support transaction decision-making.
- Support strategic finance and FP&A initiatives including forecasting, budgeting, and operational or profitability analysis used by management teams.
- Support business development initiatives including prospect research, market and industry analysis, and preparation of pitch materials for prospective clients.
- Collaborate with professionals across Advisory, Tax, and other service lines while participating in firm training, mentorship, and internship programming and receiving ongoing coaching from an assigned buddy and performance manager.
To be successful, these are the skills, qualities and experience you will need:
- Progress toward a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Engineering, or a related field, with an expected graduation date by July 2028
- A minimum GPA of 3.0, with strong performance in quantitative and analytical coursework
- A solid understanding of accounting principles and corporate finance fundamentals
- Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills, with a high level of attention to detail
- Advanced Excel proficiency: prior exposure to financial modeling is preferred
- Experience with data analytics or programming tools (Power BI, SQL, Python, R, etc.) is a plus but not required
- Clear, professional written and verbal communication skills
- Sound judgment, intellectual curiosity, and the ability to synthesize complex information
- The ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced, client-driven environment
- A willingness to receive feedback, learn quickly, and take ownership of assigned work
- A positive, collaborative mindset with a strong work ethic
How to Apply:
- Submit an application on Lever - https://jobs.lever.co/hcvt
- Required documents – Resume, Unofficial Transcripts
Skills Required
- Progress toward a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Engineering or related field
- A minimum GPA of 3.0 with strong performance in quantitative and analytical coursework
- Solid understanding of accounting principles and corporate finance fundamentals
- Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills
- Advanced Excel proficiency; prior exposure to financial modeling preferred
- Experience with data analytics or programming tools is a plus
- Clear, professional written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines
- Collaborative mindset with a strong work ethic
What We Do
We are a Top 30 CPA firm headquartered in Los Angeles, providing tax, audit and assurance, business management, mergers & acquisition, and valuation advisory services to clients across a wide variety of industries. Our engagement teams are business-focused, and our business model is built on partner access and advice. We have been recognized by Inside Public Accounting as one of the “Best of the Best” firms for a record 17 consecutive years, validating we do the right things for our people, our clients, and our communities. With a team of over 700 members operating from nine offices throughout California, and offices in Arizona, Texas, and Utah, we have the scale and bench strength to meet your needs—whether a business, nonprofit organization or a high net worth individual. We are known in the marketplace as a firm with deep technical skills addressing the most complex tax issues associated with partnerships and pass-through entities. Clarifying and resolving complex issues is what we do. How we do it is what sets us apart from other CPA firms. To learn more about HCVT, visit us at www.hcvt.com. If you’d like to be a part of our team, connect with us at [email protected] or visit https://jobs.lever.co/hcvt.
