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Partner, Forensics [Advisory Services]
@ Doane Grant Thornton
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Doane Grant Thornton is hiring a full-time Partner to lead and grow its Forensics practice within Advisory Services. The role drives practice strategy, leads complex investigations and dispute engagements, and develops advisory teams. The posting requires a CPA, a specialist forensic designation, and 10+ years of relevant experience.
Responsibilities:
- Set the strategic direction of the Forensics practice
- Lead complex investigations and forensic accounting engagements
- Expand market presence and originate new client work
- Coach, mentor and develop advisory teams
- Provide expert testimony in courts and other forums
Requirements summary:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree and CPA designation
- Specialist designation such as CFF, CFE or CAMS
- 10+ years of professional services experience in forensics
- Proven practice growth and client relationship development
- Strong people leadership experience
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-09-28
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-10
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-29
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Job details
| Seniority | Lead |
| Department | Business operations |
| Experience | 10+ years |
| Manages people | Yes |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Work setting | Office, Client sites |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer moderate |
| Languages | English |
| Licences & certifications | CPA, CFF, CFE |
| Education | Bachelor’s degree (required), Master’s degree (preferred) |
| Fields of study | Accounting |
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Doane Grant Thornton
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Doane Grant Thornton is dedicated to helping our clients, colleagues, and communities thrive.
Full company description
In Canada. For Canada. Doane Grant Thornton LLP is a leading Canadian accounting and advisory firm dedicated to helping our clients, colleagues, and communities thrive. We help dynamic private and public organizations unlock their business potential by providing meaningful, strategic advice across a broad range of services, including assurance, advisory, and tax. For 85 years, we've worked alongside the businesses that have shaped our country and economy—from small businesses to industry leaders. With nearly 3,000 colleagues in 70 offices from St. John's to Victoria, we're deeply connected to the people, industries, and communities that make Canada thrive. Our unique, purpose-driven culture has resulted in consistent recognition as one of Canada’s Best Workplaces by the Great Place to Work® Institute since 2008. As bold leaders in our chosen markets and within the professional services industry, we're committed to our values of collaboration, leadership, excellence, agility, respect, and responsibility. Doane Grant Thornton LLP is a Canadian member of Grant Thornton International Ltd., whose member firms operate in over 100 countries worldwide.
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- Reported office locations
- 200 King St W, 20th floor, Toronto, Ontario M5H 3T4, CA
- Business categories
- Consulting
- Business Development
- Financial Services
- Other recorded names
- Doane Grant Thornton
- Doane Grant Thornton LLP
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In Canada. For Canada. Doane Grant Thornton LLP is a leading Canadian accounting and advisory firm dedicated to helping our clients, colleagues, and communities thrive. We help dynamic private and public organizations unlock their business potential by providing meaningful, strategic advice across a broad range of services, including assurance, advisory, and tax. For 85 years, we've worked alongside the businesses…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Professional Services |
| Company size | 1,001-5,000 employees |
| Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario |
| Organization type | Partnership |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 211 |
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Doane Grant Thornton. One Business. One Team.
Imagine being part of a team where human connection underlies everything we do - a place where great people come together to help our clients, colleagues and communities thrive. That’s Doane Grant Thornton.
Guided by our core values, we empower our people to make a difference. We encourage the growth and development of rewarding careers—one that you can reflect upon with a sense of pride. Or, as we like to say, living our purple.
We’re a large and growing professional services firm that still feels like a community. That’s most important to us. With over three thousand people across Canada, we’re building a thriving organization that’s driven by purpose.
Our Values
At Doane Grant Thornton we hold a strong commitment to collaboration, leadership, excellence, agility, respect, and responsibility.
Position Overview
Join us on an exciting journey to build something great. As our next Partner, you will at the forefront of setting the direction of the future strategy of our Forensics, Advisory Services practice at Doane Grant Thornton. You will be entrusted with driving growth and making a meaningful impact on our clients and our team.
Strategic Impact: As a trusted leader, you champion the growth and success of our Forensics practice, as an integral part of the broader Advisory Services Team.
Client Service Experience: Join our high-performing practice in a key leadership role, where you will bring deep fact-finding and advisory expertise to help client navigate time-sensitive and complex of risk engagements. Balancing competing stakeholder needs and establish a strong foundation for effective risk management and advise across a wide range of matters, including:
• Investigations
• Forensic Accounting & Data Analytics
• Dispute Resolution
• Expert Witness
• Whistle Blower Reporting Solutions
• Cyber Incident Response
• Corporate Intelligence/ Investigative Research
• Corruption, Bribery
• Anti-Money Laundering
People Leadership: At Doane Grant Thornton, we promote an inclusive culture where cross-collaboration and growth are encouraged. As Partner, you lead by example, coaching, mentoring and empowering others to reach their professional aspirations.
This role is ideally suited to a senior leader who combines technical excellence with business acumen, credibility at the executive and board level, and a passion for building trusted, long‑term client relationships.
As a Partner with Doane Grant Thornton, you have an opportunity to play a central role in influencing the strategy, originating new work, expanding market presence and priority service offerings, and collaborating across service lines to deliver integrated client value.
Key Requirements
Education
• Completion of a Bachelor’s or advanced level degree (Masters) and professional accounting designation (CPA)
• Completion of a specialist designation program such as Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist among others
Experience and Attributes
• 10+ years of relevant experience in a professional services environment, with demonstrated leadership in conducting financial investigations, forensic accounting, litigation support, fraud-related dispute resolution, and AML related engagements
• Established experience providing expert testimony across courts and other forums
• Proven success growing a practice through relationship development, market insight, and actively anticipating client and market needs
• Proven ability to lead complex client engagements at both local and national levels
• Strong people leader with experience developing advisory teams, coaching talent, and collaborating closely with clients and colleagues, and maintains a high standard to quality, excellence, and continuous professional development
• Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to establish trust with clients and colleagues at all levels and influence decision-makers
• Desire to learn and grow, and be an integral part of a team that puts “we before me”, where agility is a mindset, and where you trust your colleagues to have your back
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