Senior Strategy & Operations Leader

Grant Thornton; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 184,000 - 276,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) savings plan

Annual bonus

Job summary

Grant Thornton in Denver seeks an Associate Director, Strategy & Operations to join the Office of the COO. You will lead strategic and performance initiatives, translating leadership priorities into actionable plans and measurable results across the Americas member firms.

The role requires strong business judgment, executive presence, and the ability to influence across service lines and functions without formal authority, delivering end-to-end execution with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• 8-12+ years of progressively responsible experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, business operations, transformation, finance, or a comparable environment.
• Demonstrated experience independently leading complex, cross-functional strategic or operational initiatives from problem definition through implementation.
• Demonstrated ability to convert complex analysis into business insight, management implications, and actionable recommendations.
• Experience regularly engaging and influencing senior executives, including facilitating discussions and presenting recommendations.
• Strong business and financial acumen, with the ability to understand performance drivers and connect operational activity to business outcomes.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including advanced capability in executive presentations, business storytelling, and decision-support materials.

Responsibilities

• Independently lead strategic and operational initiatives sponsored by the Office of the COO, from problem definition and workplan design through recommendation, decision, implementation, and benefits realization.
• Structure complex and ambiguous business questions, develop hypotheses, establish the analytical approach, and determine the information and stakeholder input required to reach a sound conclusion.
• Develop strategic options, business cases, and decision frameworks that clearly articulate business implications, tradeoffs, risks, and recommended courses of action.
• Translate enterprise priorities into executable plans with clear outcomes, ownership, milestones, dependencies, performance measures, and governance.
• Anticipate execution barriers and emerging issues; resolve them directly where possible and bring forward focused decisions when executive intervention is required.

Skills

Executive presence

Cross-functional influence

Business judgment

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, economics, accounting, or related field

Tools

PowerPoint

Excel

Job description

Grant Thornton in Denver seeks an Associate Director, Strategy & Operations to join the Office of the COO. You will lead strategic and performance initiatives, translating leadership priorities into actionable plans and measurable results across the Americas member firms.

The role requires strong business judgment, executive presence, and the ability to influence across service lines and functions without formal authority, delivering end-to-end execution with cross-functional teams.