Business Consulting Intern Summer 2026

GrantThorntonsAdvisoryprofessionalshelpcompaniesstayaheadofthegamewithboldthinkingbig Advisorypracticeappliesour deepexperienceto challengethestatusquo and accelerate our clients growth establish long term trusted relationships with our clients to enable their success through top-line growth bottom-line productivity improvement and workforce enablement.

As a Growth Advisory intern you will have the opportunity to work across multiple solutions and apprentice within multiple industries. This allows you to explore the types of industries and problems where you can add the most value and would like to spend time on as you progress in your career.

Our Growth Advisory team works hand in hand with our colleagues in other parts of Advisory to solve the wide-ranging challenges faced by our clients. While each of our clients are unique we organize ourselves into industry-focused teams to ensure that we are best positioned to bring our deep knowledge of that industry to solve growth-related issues to our clients.

Within Growth Advisory we have three specific areas on which we advise:

• Commercial & Growth We help our clients realize organic and inorganic growth by identifying where to make strategic bets in core adjacent and transformational opportunities and improving ROI on marketing and sales investments by converting customer needs into desired experiences and outcomes. Competency areas include corporate growth strategy brand strategy customer experience design demand generation sales channel enablement product positioning operating model design market intelligence and value creation planning.
• Operations & Performance We are a holistic solution across end-to-end business processes including finance operations integrated planning procurement and more that address our clients bottom-line performance challenges and develop recommendations to turnaround stabilize and optimize operations. Competency areas include supply chain optimization sourcing and procurement enterprise cost reduction restructuring and enterprise business planning.
• Talent & Culture We empower our clients growth and transformation through alignment of their organizational structure service delivery model change management capabilities and employee experience. Competency areas include culture transformation organizational design employee experience learning and development human resources operations communications and change enablement.

Theinternpositionoffers excellentgrowthopportunitiesfortalentedhighlymotivatedindividuals. As an intern you willpartnerwithclient-focused teamstouncoverkeyinsightsreimaginebusinessmodelsanddefinestrategiesthat willworkwithteamsandclientsonaday-to-daybasisto conduct willapplyknowledgeofbusinessprinciples andhelpdevelopactionablerecommendations.

This role may be for you if you answer yes to the following questions:

• Do you value communication skills and executive presence
• Do you like advising supporting others and client service
• Are you curious and always asking questions
• Do you find research and deeply understanding problems rewarding
• Do you like to develop a point of view and a story
• Do you like working with others
• Do you like working with data and spotting anomalies

InternlevelinterviewsfortheGrowth AdvisoryPractice includea behavioralinterviewanda strategiccaseinterview.

Yourday-to-daymayinclude:

Asan internyouwillhavetheopportunitytodevelopyourcareerthroughdiverseengagements business andconsultingskillsacrossa :

• Solving complexambiguousproblems anddemonstratingstronganalyticalskills
• Utilizingvariousdatacollectiontechniquesquantitativeandqualitativeanalysesandsupportingdata synthesisintomeaningfulandactionableinsights
• Defining andevaluatingcorporateandgrowthstrategiesreflectingmarketcompetitiveandotherexternal drivers
• Communicating in astructuredandknowledgeablemannerinwrittenandverbalformatsto stakeholders
• Conducting research developing business insights and increasing business acumen

Youhavethefollowingtechnicalskillsqualificationsandabilities:

• Strong academic performance while pursuing a university degree
• Targeted Majors include but are not limited to: Business Operations Finance Supply Chain Engineering Human Resources Marketing Economics Change Management Organizational Development
• Minimum overall and major GPA of 3.0/4.0 preferred
• Demonstrated ability to work in teams and deliver against tight deadlines in dynamic environments; this may be demonstrated via university projects internships self-study community building or work experience
• Effectively communicate complex ideas and concepts both in written and verbal formats
• Intellectual curiosity and motivation to develop professionally including industry recognized professional certifications
• Demonstrated ability to work both independently and as a member of a team
• Critical thinkers that are ready to learn and strategically problem solve on a variety of projects across different functional areas
• Ability to remain agile work in ambiguous environments can-do attitude
• Positive client-focused mindset
• The willingness and ability to work additional hours as needed
• Ability to travel to various client sites as needed
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future. No visa sponsorship is available for this position.