Is This You?You're fascinated by the complexity inside organizations: how they're built to perform, how they adapt under pressure, and what it really takes to transform them. You want to master that terrain, and you're ambitious enough to want to be exceptional at it.
You don't need to have it all figured out, but you care about creating value for organizations, not just how a plan might read on a page. You're sharp enough to find the signal in messy data. You're excited about AI, not as a buzzword, but as a tool to deploy in high-stakes situations. Most of all, you want your work to have immediate impact.
If you want to become the kind of advisor executives trust with their hardest decisions, it
starts at Deloitte as a Functional & Operations Strategy Summer Associate.What You'll DoYour work will feed the decisions executives can't afford to get wrong.
Here's the day to day: you'll get a problem that isn't fully defined, and your job is structuring the question, setting the path forward, and guiding the team from analysis to recommendation. You'll dig into data, pressure-test insights, and turn findings into clear, actionable perspectives for clients. You'll work independently and collaboratively with a project team, lead workstreams, and communicate recommendations to executives, helping shape agendas that turn bold ambitions into tangible outcomes. You'll be expected to think, not just execute, bringing a perspective into every conversation.
The questions you'll wrestle with live at the heart of how organizations actually function:
- How should we restructure our workforce as AI reshapes what work means, and how do we bring people through that change without losing momentum?
- How does the CFO build a finance function that's a true strategic partner, not a reporting machine? What operating model gives a business the agility to execute its strategy at scale?
- How should a company rethink its physical footprint and infrastructure in a world that keeps shifting underneath it?
- How do we move beyond automating old processes to reimagining what's possible with agentic AI?
These are the questions our clients bring to us because they trust that no one is more equipped to answer them.
The work spans the full arc of strategic advising: diagnosing where a business function stands, charting where it needs to go, and designing the transformation required to get there. You'll be expected to think, not just execute, and to bring a perspective into every conversation .
The best strategies aren't measured by the quality of the deck, they're road-tested and measured by the value they create. Strategy and execution aren't separate disciplines. As a Functional & Operations Strategy Summer Associate at Deloitte, you'll learn how to connect the two.
How You'll GrowOur apprenticeship model means feedback shows up at every stage of the journey, beyond formal reviews. You'll receive coaching in the moment, on the job, from people who've walked the path you're on now.
The skills you'll build as a Functional & Operations Strategy Summer Associate are the foundation of a modern strategic advisor: how to turn messy data into a clear insight, how to build the analysis and financial fluency that earns credibility in the room, and how to communicate a point of view clearly enough that it actually changes someone's thinking. You can be a future executive advisor or future CXO. We'll get you ready for both.
Where You'll FocusWe advise Fortune 500 clients across all industries, serving both Corporate and Private Equity sponsors. That range is intentional. You'll build on your experience to solve client problems that are not always familiar or defined. Early on, you'll move across industries and problem types. Over time, that breadth turns into depth: you'll build real expertise within a strategy path and sharpen your ability to frame recommendations, assess risks, and communicate implications directly to CXOs, business unit leaders, and other executives.
Our teams have built, and continue to hold, the deepest expertise in their respective functional domains, and clients know it. When you join, you're stepping into a team that's already winning at the highest level. Your job is to learn from the best, build fast, and become the expert executives call when a specific challenge lands on their desk.
Industries Practices Consumer
Energy, Resources & Industrials
Financial Services
Life Sciences & Healthcare
Technology, Media & Entertainment
Controllership & Treasury Transformation
Industry Operations
Infrastructure & Real Estate Strategy
Candidate Preference Survey At Deloitte, we partner with clients to tackle some of the most complex and existential business challenges of our time - those that shape the future of our clients' organizations and industries. To do this, Deloitte develops, nurtures, and grows modern
functional and operations strategic advisors across three practices.
- Finance Transformation
- Industry Operations
- Infrastructure & Real Estate Strategy
We're committed to matching our people with work that excites and motivates them. Your input in the survey below will give us an initial understanding of where your skills and interests align best within our organization.
Your selections will be noted in your applicant profile. Your preference selections will 1) help us connect you with professionals who do the work most interesting to you and 2) inform the work you'll perform while at Deloitte.Please review the below practice descriptions and indicate your interest areas in rank order.
Controllership & Treasury Transformation: Partner with CFOs, their accounting and finance teams, and other senior executives across the enterprise to define strategies that elevate the capabilities of, and insights delivered by, controllership. Here, you'll deliver improved enterprise performance by reimagining capabilities across the organization, enhancing business partnership, boosting productivity, and driving long-term profitability through deep accounting and finance domain expertise. Get ready to lead global finance transformation powered by AI, advanced analytics and modern tools, turning insights into sustainable results.
Industry Operations: Reimagine how mission-critical operations - the processes unique to how a hospital runs, how an insurer pays claims, or how a bank manages loans - evolve to meet the moment and how AI and new technology are rewriting what's possible. If you thrive on solving high-impact, industry-specific operations challenges, this is where strategy ignites transformation and carries it through to delivery. Here, you'll shape your career around deep industry specialization, designing and delivering best-in-class solutions that drive operational excellence.
Infrastructure & Real Estate Strategy: Advise clients on how to plan, manage, optimize, and transform location footprint as well as physical assets over their full lifecycle. Here, you will help clients unlock greater value from their talent footprint, real estate portfolio and their capital projects through portfolio strategy, location selection, operating model, org design, and tech enablement.
The Team Our Deloitte team plays a major role in directly embedding technology insights into our clients' organizational goals. At Deloitte, our consultants create sharply focused solutions within an organization's operating model, accounting for its people, intellectual capital, technology, and processes. Engagement teams at Deloitte drive value for our clients but also understand the importance of developing resources and contributing to the communities in which we work. We make it our business to take issue to impact, both within and beyond a client setting.
Qualifications - Must be currently enrolled in an accredited college or university and expected to graduate by Spring/Summer 2028 with an MBA degree or related/equivalent program
- 3+ years of full-time work experience
- S trong academic track record
- You must reside within a commutable distance of your assigned office with the ability to commute daily, if required
- Ability to travel up to 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
- Candidates must be at least 18 years of age at time of employment
The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate is $3,557 per week.
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