Why Grant Thornton | Stax Transactions 

• Work directly with leading private equity firms, growth investors, and Fortune 500 executives on high-stakes strategic and transaction decisions.  

• Lead high-impact engagements with real ownership  

• Experience the best of both worlds: the entrepreneurial culture and agility of a boutique consulting firm combined with the scale, reach, and platform of Grant Thornton.  

• Gain broad exposure across industries, transaction types, and growth challenges in a model designed to accelerate commercial judgment and leadership development.  

• Operate in lean, collaborative teams where senior leaders are accessible, mentorship is real, and contributions are visible.  

• Help build a rapidly growing platform post-acquisition, with opportunities to shape capabilities, develop new offerings, and contribute to firm-wide growth initiatives.  

• Deliver meaningful client impact without the traditional road-warrior consulting lifestyle through a more sustainable, low-travel operating model.  

• Join a high-performance culture that values intellectual curiosity, initiative, collaboration, and merit-based advancement. 

Summer Associates at Grant Thornton Stax Transactions are an integral part of the case team and are afforded tremendous opportunities. The ideal candidates bring with them a passion for life and learning, a bias for action, an affinity for ideas, and a drive to provide value to our clients. Summer Associates collaborate directly with consultants, managers, and directors daily to tackle our client’s most difficult problems, and to support private equity clients in better understanding and valuing potential investments. 

As a Summer Associate, you’ll be a critical member of a project team, providing research and analytic support to case teams, and ultimately helping address our clients’ key questions. Each project presents unique challenges, and from the outset our associates engage in problem solving, research, analysis, and presentation. You are not only responsible for quality research but are also encouraged and expected to develop strategic implications and conclusions, strengthening the broader team. 

What You’ll Do 

Summer Associates at Grant Thornton Stax Transactions help drive the analytical foundation of each engagement and build toward increasing ownership over time. You will: 

• Collect and analyze data from a variety of primary and secondary sources, and effectively communicate your findings and insights to the project team in verbal and written form. 

• Conduct telephone conversations with industry experts and personnel. This could mean talking to CEOs about market trends one week and IT administrators about software choices the next. These phone calls are unscheduled and require effective communication skills and an adaptable approach to navigate through the gate keepers, engage participants and persuade individuals who may be reluctant to contribute to our research goals. 

• Learn how to draw meaningful insights from primary and secondary data, working with a Grant Thornton Stax project leads to structure presentations with clear storylines and conclusions using PowerPoint or Word. 

• Collaborate with other project team members to share and further develop your insights and develop analytics that will feed into the final recommendations and presentations we make to our clients. 

• Contribute to client deliverables and client conversations, sharing analysis and results in combination with the broader team with senior-level executives at Fortune 500 firms and top-tier LBOs. 

What Makes This Role Different 

At Grant Thornton Stax Transactions, Summer Associates gain exposure, responsibility, and mentorship that accelerates development early in their careers. You’ll experience: 

• Hands-on learning from day one, working directly on real client problems 

• Direct exposure to senior leaders, with accessible mentorship and frequent feedback 

• A content- and insight-driven culture, where analytical rigor and curiosity are valued 

• A unique global support model, with integrated international teams providing research and analytical leverage 

• Fast-paced engagements across industries, building breadth quickly and helping you discover your interests 

• Minimal travel to no travel, supporting a more sustainable consulting model 

Qualifications 

• Pursuing a bachelor’s degree in business, economics, engineering, or mathematics. 

• Prefer junior and above. 

• Must have a 3.5 GPA or better. 

• Prior related work experience including co-op/intern programs with a focus on business analysis and problem solving. 

• Strong interest in consulting with an understanding of business dynamics based on work experience, internships, or coursework. 

• Demonstrated leadership skills through participation on teams/clubs/organizations/associations, whether extracurricular or professional. 

• Detail oriented, initiative-taker with an intellectual curiosity and teamwork capabilities. 

• Excellent critical thinking, understanding of business research and analysis. 

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. 

• Strong command of Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint). 

The salary range for this position is $38 per hour. 

Grant Thornton Stax is an equal opportunity employer and affords equal opportunity to all applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability (except where the disability is a bona fide occupational disqualification), sexual orientation, genetic makeup, predisposition or carrier status, familial or marital status, military or veteran status or any other status protected under local, state or federal laws. 

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