Strategic Assurance and SOC Services Intern - Summer 2027

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 Interns 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 informat