Grant Thornton (US)

Associate

• Evaluate software platforms through an integrated commercial, operational, and financial lens
• Provide analytical and technical support across product technology diligence engagements
• Assess software platforms across technical architecture, product strategy, operational scalability, and financial sustainability
• Conduct architecture reviews and documentation analysis
• Support codebase and technical debt analysis
• Analyze cloud infrastructure configurations
• Assist in evaluating roadmap feasibility
• Evaluate engineering operating models, including team structure, velocity, and DevOps
• Provide points of view on scalability risks, performance bottlenecks, and security considerations
• Support hosting cost, SaaS economics, and R&D cost analysis
• Prepare diligence slides, summaries, and deal insights
• Support management Q&A tracking

Senior Associate, Product Technology M&A

Data Scientist

• Apply and extend enterprise data governance frameworks to acquired-company integration
• Embed governance requirements into migration, integration, modernization, archival, reporting, and analytics enablement activities
• Establish a full data-estate view for each acquisition, covering structured and unstructured content
• Catalog acquired-company content by category, sensitivity, ownership, business purpose, and disposition
• Advise technology teams on migration, archival, preservation, and disposal decisions
• Assess content for regulated, privileged, personal, and client-confidential material and define handling requirements
• Identify accountable data owners and obtain documented approval for new or materially changed data use
• Manage external sharing and third-party access approval paths
• Classify data against retention requirements, establish retention periods and triggers, and coordinate defensible disposal
• Confirm and track legal and business holds
• Account for jurisdictional privacy, data residency, and statutory retention differences
• Define data quality rules, profiling, remediation, reconciliation, and quality gates
• Standardize definitions, formats, critical data elements, metadata, lineage, and ownership expectations
• Maintain data catalogs and business glossaries
• Support data consumers and manage stewardship activities
• Support adoption and rollout of governance technologies and work with IT, platforms, and vendors
• Operationalize privacy, security, classification, access, masking, retention, and disposal controls
• Monitor governance performance and produce executive-ready dashboards and reports
• Facilitate cross-functional governance sessions and support source-to-target mapping, lineage, reconciliation, issue resolution, and integration readiness
• Improve governance processes, quality controls, stewardship, metadata, automation, reporting, and delivery repeatability

Manager, Data Transformation – Governance

Risk

• Support and maintain enterprise data governance frameworks for acquired-company integration
• Embed governance requirements into migration, integration, modernization, archival, reporting, and analytics initiatives
• Build and maintain inventories of structured and unstructured acquired-company data and content
• Catalog content by category, sensitivity, ownership, business purpose, and disposition
• Prepare handling recommendations for tenant consolidation, application, service management, and end user technology teams
• Review unstructured and semi-structured content for regulated, privileged, personal, and client-confidential material
• Track data owners, stewards, approvals, retention categories, legal holds, disposal timing, and exceptions
• Support data quality, standardization, source-to-target mapping, lineage, reconciliation, issue resolution, and readiness activities
• Maintain catalog and business glossary entries, stewardship materials, metadata, definitions, and ownership documentation
• Support adoption and rollout of data governance technologies and validate tool outputs
• Collaborate with Legal, Privacy, Risk, Compliance, Security, IT, data platform teams, vendors, and implementation partners
• Prepare governance reports, metrics, dashboards, status updates, meeting materials, and issue logs
• Facilitate cross-functional working sessions and document governance decisions
• Identify opportunities to improve governance work products, data quality controls, stewardship routines, metadata practices, and transformation delivery

Senior Associate, Data Transformation, Governance

• Maintain data governance documentation for acquired-company integration, including standards, roles, ownership lists, stewardship trackers, escalation paths, and performance metric inputs
• Support governance activities for data migration, integration, modernization, archival, reporting, and analytics enablement workstreams
• Build and maintain data estate inventories covering structured application data and unstructured content
• Record content attributes including category, sensitivity, ownership, business purpose, volume, and disposition
• Prepare content-category summaries and handling directions for integration teams
• Review unstructured and semi-structured content for regulated, privileged, personal, and client-confidential material
• Maintain ownership documentation, approval records, retention records, legal-hold records, and disposal evidence
• Apply retention categories and track retention periods, triggers, disposal timing, and exceptions
• Support data quality and standardization through profiling summaries, issue logs, remediation trackers, reconciliation evidence, and quality gate checklists
• Maintain data definitions, critical data element lists, metadata, lineage notes, catalog entries, glossary entries, and ownership documentation
• Coordinate data stewardship actions, meeting notes, follow-ups, status updates, and open issues
• Assist with data catalog, metadata management, lineage, data quality, master data management, and data issue management tools
• Document requirements, validate tool outputs, and prepare rollout or training materials
• Support Legal, Privacy, Risk, Compliance, and Security stakeholders with classification, access-control, masking, retention, and disposal documentation
• Prepare governance reports, dashboards, trackers, meeting materials, and issue logs
• Participate in cross-functional working sessions and document decisions, actions, ownership, and follow-up items
• Support source-to-target mapping, lineage documentation, reconciliation tracking, data issue resolution, and integration readiness
• Identify opportunities to improve governance templates, trackers, documentation, reporting routines, and repeatable processes

Associate, Data Transformation – Governance

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Manage financial due diligence professionals on buy-side and sell-side transactions for corporate clients, private equity groups, and commercial lenders
• Manage engagements throughout the transaction lifecycle
• Coordinate Grant Thornton capabilities by leveraging service lines, cross-functional teams, and international colleagues
• Plan, execute, direct, and complete financial due diligence for financial and corporate strategic buyers across industries
• Examine and analyze client data to identify key trends, quality of earnings adjustments, and net working capital impacts
• Draft reports covering quality of earnings, networking capital, business performance, and key financial and business issues
• Manage client expectations regarding timing, progress, deliverables, and deadlines
• Lead change efforts effectively
• Develop and maintain strong client relationships
• Team with partners and senior managers on proposals and business development calls
• Recruit, manage, mentor, and train senior associates and associates
• Assess senior associates' and associates' performance for engagement and year-end reviews
• Perform other duties as assigned

Senior Associate, Product Technology M&A

Manager, Data Transformation – Governance

Senior Associate, Data Transformation, Governance

Associate, Data Transformation – Governance

Financial Due Diligence Manager