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Grant Thornton is seeking Chief of Staff to the Advisory Managing Partner to join the team. This is a Senior Director level position. Approved office locations can be found below.

About the Role

We’re seeking a Chief of Staff to the Advisory Managing Partner (MP), who will act as a strategic operator, growth enabler, force multiplier, and trusted partner to the Advisory Leadership Team. You’ll help drive alignment across our rapidly scaling organization, ensuring Advisory executes with excellence on our short-term and long-term objectives, collaborates seamlessly with partners across the other lines of business and enterprise functions, and stays focused on what matters most as we intentionally build our future together.

This is a visible and high-impact role that blends strategy, operations, and execution enablement. You’ll refine and orchestrate the operating cadence of the Advisory governing structure, streamline decision-making, and strengthen alignment across key partner functions. Your impact will be from strategy through execution.

In this role, you will provide:

+ Strategic Partnership: Help drive clarity, alignment, and follow-through on key priorities across the Advisory Leadership Team, working closely with the Advisory Managing Partner (MP) and Advisory Operations / Transformation Leader; serve as the MP’s proxy in select settings.

+ Global Platform Expansion: Play a critical role in driving and supporting the global Advisory leadership strategy, country-by-country strategy adoption, as other GT firms come onto the platform.

+ Organizational Operations: Design and run the operating cadence - staff meetings, MP organized PMD forums, solution reviews, quarterly planning, PMD calls/meetings, ALT meetings with client ready deliverables etc. This includes proactively recommending and planning the leadership meetings and strategic events, overseeing agenda development, content creation, and end-to-end logistics to ensure productive and outcome-driven discussions.

+ Connection with One Firm: Communicate and interact credibly with executive leadership, including the firmwide CEO, COO, P&C, and Service Line Leaders and their Chiefs of Staff to drive aligned outcomes; interact with the investors as needed.

+ Cross-Functional Execution: Partner closely with our enterprise (firmwide) functions to ensure priorities and initiatives represent the growing needs of the Advisory business and are scoped, resourced, and progressing against key milestones.

+ Decision Support: Prepare briefing materials, synthesize sales, finance, and HR data, and surface insights to support fast and effective decision-making.

+ Communications: Draft and drive internal communications and narratives that keep teams aligned and inspired to achieve our plan, including updates to the Executive Committee and Board.

+ Leadership Enablement: Enable the Advisory MP to scale impact by managing bandwidth, anticipating organizational needs, and driving leadership focus on top priorities. Work with Advisory Leadership to define and execute strategic priorities, driving accountability across key initiatives with partners and senior leaders.

+ Special Projects: Lead critical cross-functional initiatives and stand up new workstreams to accelerate impact, operational maturity, and organizational health.

+ Metrics: Analyze overall Advisory and practice-level KPIs to deliver insights and recommendations that inform strategic and operational decisions, collaborating closely with enablement teams including Finance and People & Culture.

What we are looking for:

+ 10+ years of experience in professional services, operations, consulting, or Chief of Staff roles within high-growth, complex environments.

+ Proven ability to bring structure to ambiguity, drive clarity across complex stakeholder groups, and translate strategic goals into actionable plans.

+ Exceptional communication skills, both oral and written - presents with credibility; proficiently develops decks, leadership memos, emails, both formal and informal, etc.

+ Proven relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence, align, and inspire at all levels.

+ Deep analytical skills, proficient and insightful with the numbers of the business.

+ Strong strategic thinking paired with execution discipline - able to zoom out to see the big picture while staying close to details that ensure measurable progress and outcomes.

+ Analytical and resourceful, with demonstrated success leading long-term, cross-functional initiatives and driving organizational change.

+ Mission-driven, with a deep interest in the potential and implications of Grant Thornton’s mission and what it means to our people, our clients, and the market.

+ A life-long learner, intrinsically motivated to innovate, apply Ai to everything from mundane deliverable production to practice building and client value, and lead by example in unchartered waters.

+ Bachelor's degree required. Advanced or master’s degree preferred.

+ Proficiency in tools and methodologies that support disciplined and fast execution while driving operational excellence and setting an expected standard of performance.

+ Ability to travel as needed for planned meetings and work in the New York office alongside the Advisory MP a couple of days a week.

The base salary range for this position in the firm’s Chicago, IL, Downers Grove, IL, Denver, CO, Reno, NV, Cleveland, OH and Baltimore, MD offices only is between $187,500 and $312,500 per year.

The base salary range for this position in the firm’s Washington, DC, Bellevue, WA, Los Angeles, CA, Newport Beach, CA San Diego, CA, Boston, MA, Iselin, NJ and New York, NY offices only is between $202,500 and $337,500 per year.

The base salary range for this position in the firm’s San Francisco, CA and San Jose, CA offices only is between $215,600 and $359,400 per year.

About Us

At Grant Thornton, we believe in making business more personal and building trust into every result – for our clients and you. Here, we go beyond your expectations of a career in professional services by offering a career path with more: more opportunity, more flexibility, and more support. It’s what makes us different, and we think being different makes us better.

In the U.S., Grant Thornton delivers professional services through two specialized entities: Grant Thornton LLP, a licensed, certified public accounting (CPA) firm that provides audit and assurance services ― and Grant Thornton Advisors LLC (not a licensed CPA firm), which exclusively provides non-attest offerings, including tax and advisory services.

In 2025, Grant Thornton formed a multinational, multidisciplinary platform with Grant Thornton Ireland. The platform offers a premier Trans-Atlantic advisory and tax practice, as well as independent American and Irish audit practices. With $2.7 billion in revenues and more than 50 offices spanning the U.S., Ireland and other territories, the platform delivers a singular client experience that includes enhanced solutions and capabilities, backed by powerful technologies and a roster of 12,000 quality-driven professionals enjoying exceptional career-growth opportunities and a distinctive cross-border culture.

Grant Thornton is part of the Grant Thornton International Limited network, which provides access to its member firms in more than 150 global markets.

About the Team

The team you’re about to join is ready to help you thrive. Here’s how:

• Whether it’s your work location, weekly schedule, or flex time off, we empower you with the options to work in the way that best serves your clients and your life. Consistent with the firm’s hybrid work model, this position will require in-person attendance at least two days per week, either at a GT office or client site.

• Here, you are supported to prioritize your overall well-being through work-life integration options that work best for you and those in your household.

• We understand that your needs, responsibilities and experiences are different — and we think that’s a good thing. That’s why we support you with personalized and comprehensive benefits that recognize and empower all the identities, roles and aspirations that make you, well, you. See how at www.gt.com/careers

• When it comes to inclusion, we are committed to doing more than checking boxes. Explore all the ways we’re taking action for diversity, equity & inclusion at www.gt.com/careers

Here’s what you can expect next:

If you apply and are selected to interview, a Grant Thornton team member will reach out to you to schedule a time to connect. We encourage you to also check out other roles that may be a good fit for you or get to know us a little bit better at www.gt.com/careers.

Benefits:

We understand that your needs, responsibilities and experiences are different, and we think that’s a good thing. That’s why we support you with personalized and comprehensive benefits that recognize and empower all the identities, roles and aspirations that make you, well, you. For an overview of our benefit offerings, please visit: https://www.grantthornton.com/careers/rewards-and-benefits

+ Benefits for internship positions: Grant Thornton interns are eligible to participate in the firm’s medical, dental and vision insurance programs and the firm’s employee assistance program. Interns also receive a minimum of 72 hours of paid sick leave and are paid for firm holidays that fall within their internship period.

+ Benefits for seasonal employee positions: Grant Thornton seasonal employees are eligible to participate in the firm’s medical, dental and vision insurance programs and the firm’s employee assistance program. Seasonal employees may also be eligible to participate in the firm’s 401(k) savings plan and employee retirement plan in accordance with applicable plan terms and eligibility requirements. Seasonal employees receive a minimum of 72 hours of paid sick leave.

Grant Thornton employees may be eligible for a discretionary, annual bonus based on individual and firm performance, subject to the terms, conditions and eligibility criteria of the applicable bonus plan or program. Interns and seasonal employees are not eligible for bonus compensation.

Additional Details:

It is the policy of Grant Thornton to promote equal employment opportunities. All personnel decisions (including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, training, working conditions, promotion, transfer, compensation, benefits, evaluations, and termination) are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital or civil union status, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship status, veteran status, disability, handicap, genetic predisposition or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and applicable state and local laws, it is the policy of Grant Thornton to provide reasonable accommodation when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with a disability, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. The policy regarding requests for reasonable accommodation applies to all aspects of employment, including the application process. To make an accommodation request, please contact [email protected].

For Los Angeles Applicants only: We will consider for employment all qualified Applicants, including those with Criminal Histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.

For Massachusetts Applicants only: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability. Grant Thornton does not require or administer lie detector tests as a condition of employment or continued employment.