Strategic Assurance and SOC Services Associate – Summer ; Bellevue

Strategic Assurance and SOC Services Associate – Summer 2026 (Bellevue)

and the job listing Expires on March 2, 2026

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Who is Grant Thornton?

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.

What is Strategic Assurance and SOC Services?

Organizations face a growing list of risks that can result in negative financial performance, reputational damage and loss of customer or client trust. Our audit professionals assist organizations build and preserve the trust their clients place in them by assessing their needs and developing solutions to satisfy their compliance and reporting mandates, including System and Organization Controls (SOC) reports and other assurance services.

Management teams turn to advisers like Grant Thornton for broad industry and business perspectives, business process, and information technology expertise. They are looking for advisers with proven experience to assist them with assessing their risk management programs and providing assurance and certifications to validate the risk mitigation strategies relevant to their customers.

Grant Thornton’s Audit professionals focused on Strategic Assurance and SOC Services (SASS) are progressive thinkers who create, protect, and transform value today, so our clients can have the opportunity to thrive and grow. Our SASS practice creates holistic solutions delivered by innovative, curious professionals who bring technical depth and industry insight to our clients.

Position Summary:

SASS Associates are responsible for delivering engagements ranging from Readiness Assessments performed under consulting standards to examinations performed under attestation standards. Readiness Assessments include working with your organization to define the scope of the system subject to the examination, collaborate with process and control owners to help identify the relevant controls and identify any gaps within the system so that management can remediate them before pursuing an examination.

Examinations range from SOC 1 and SOC 2 reports to HIPAA and HITRUST projects. What is common across the portfolio of work is the collaboration with our clients to help identify business process and information technology controls to mitigate the Company’s risk.

Strategic Assurance and SOC Services –

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Work with the client to plan engagement strategy, define objectives, and address business risks and issues and supporting controls.

Apply current knowledge of trends to…