Director, Americas Integration Lead

We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title as heading. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info. Remove boilerplate like EEO, legal, navigation, cookie, application instructions, duplicated lines. We need to parse the job description. Key parts: - Opening paragraph: "Grant Thornton is seeking a Director, Americas Integration Lead to join the team. The Director, Americas Integration Lead is accountable for integration delivery across the Americas portfolio as part of the Global Integration Management Office (IMO). The Director oversees integrations primarily through program managers assigned to individual transactions, while directly leading selected integrations based on complexity, risk, or resourcing needs. The Director serves as the primary IMO contact for the Americas and works with acquired-entity leaders, regional and market leadership, functional executives, and external advisors. The role leads the Americas integration team, allocates resources across concurrent integrations, and ensures each program follows the IMO’s governance, tools, reporting standards, and operating cadence while adapting execution to transaction and market requirements." That's about the role. Could be "About the role" section. - Then "Key Responsibilities:" with bullet list (multiple paragraphs). We'll extract each bullet as list items. - Then "Regional Team Leadership" (subheading) but could be part of responsibilities. We'll include under Responsibilities. - Then "Global IMO Alignment and Governance" also part of responsibilities. - Then "Qualifications" section with bullet list. - Then "Success Measures" maybe could be considered as part of Qualifications? But it's separate; could be a section like "Performance Expectations" but not in allowed headings. Allowed headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. "Success Measures" maybe could go under Qualifications or Requirements? It's about performance expectations; maybe treat as part of Qualifications? But we should not invent sections. We could include under Qualifications as additional bullet? But it's not a qualification; it's success measures. Could treat as "Requirements"? Not exactly. Could omit if not fitting allowed headings? But we must preserve ALL substantive information; we cannot drop success measures. We need to place it somewhere. Perhaps we can put under "Qualifications" as a subsection? But we must not create new headings beyond allowed list. We could embed success measures within a

under Qualifications or Responsibilities. The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we can include success measures as a paragraph under Qualifications (makes sense). Or under Responsibilities? It's about outcomes; maybe better under Qualifications. - Then "Approved Locations" paragraph: location info. Could be under "About the role" or maybe "Requirements"? Not exactly. Could be its own section? Not in allowed list. Could be placed under "About the role" as additional paragraph. - Then salary range: "The base salary range for this position is between $187,500 and $312,500." That's Pay section. Must include Pay section only if posting actually states them. Yes, we have salary range. So we create

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containing that sentence. - Then "About Us" etc: that's boilerplate about company; we should remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. The "About Us" section includes marketing fluff; is that considered boilerplate? The instruction: "Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions." The "About Us" is not explicitly listed as boilerplate to remove, but it's generic marketing. However we need to preserve ALL substantive information; is "About Us" substantive? It describes the firm; might be considered not essential to the job but still part of posting. The instruction says preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. It doesn't say to remove marketing fluff. Only remove specific boilerplate types. So we could keep "About Us" but maybe under a section? Not in allowed headings. Could we put under "About the role"? Might be redundant. Could we create a section "About the company"? Not allowed. So maybe we should omit it because it's not required headings and we prefer few substantive sections. The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." It doesn't forbid adding extra sections not in list, but the list is given as suggested headings. It says: "use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It implies those are the headings we should use. It doesn't say we cannot use other headings, but likely they want only those. Also they say "include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text". So we can create sections for those headings only if we have content. If we don't have content for a heading, we omit it. Thus we need to map content to those headings. Let's decide: - About the role: includes overview of role, location, maybe approved locations, about us? We'll put the initial paragraph and maybe approved locations paragraph. - Responsibilities: all responsibilities bullets (including Americas Integration Delivery, Regional Team Leadership, Global IMO Alignment and Governance). We'll combine. - Requirements: maybe we can put "Approved Locations" under Requirements? Not really. Requirements could be things like travel ability, etc. But we have qualifications separate. The posting has "Qualifications" section. So we will use Qualifications for that. - Requirements: maybe we can put "Ability to travel across the Americas as required" etc. Also "Professional-services experience and familiarity with member-firm structures are preferred, but not required." That's more qualification. Hmm. But we have both Qualifications and Requirements headings allowed. The posting has a "Qualifications" section with bullet list. It also has "Success Measures". Could treat Success Measures as Requirements? Not exactly. But we could put Success Measures under Requirements as they are expectations for performance. However the heading "Requirements" usually refers to job requirements (qualifications). But we already have Qualifications for that. Might be overlapping. We could decide to not use Requirements heading at all, and put all qualification-like content under Qualifications. Then we have About the role, Responsibilities, Qualifications, Benefits, Pay. Schedule: we have schedule info: "Consistent with the firm's hybrid work model, this position will require in-person attendance at least three days per week, either at a GT office or client site." That's schedule. So we need a Schedule section. Benefits: we have benefits description. So Benefits section. Thus we will have sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Qualifications, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must not include Skills unless we have specific skills list; we don't have a separate skills list; qualifications include skills but we can omit Skills section. Now we need to extract content and format. Let's gather content for each. About the role: - Opening paragraph(s) up to before "Key Responsibilities:" maybe include the first paragraph(s). Also include "Approved Locations" paragraph. - Also maybe include "About Us"? Not needed. Let's copy the opening paragraph exactly: "Grant Thornton is seeking a Director, Americas Integration Lead to join the team. The Director, Americas Integration Lead is accountable for integration delivery across the Americas portfolio as part of the Global Integration Management Office (IMO). The Director oversees integrations primarily through program managers assigned to individual transactions, while directly leading selected integrations based on complexity, risk, or resourcing needs. The Director serves as the primary IMO contact for the Americas and works with acquired-entity leaders, regional and market leadership, functional executives, and external advisors. The role leads the Americas integration team, allocates resources across concurrent integrations, and ensures each program follows the IMO’s governance, tools, reporting standards, and operating cadence while adapting execution to transaction and market requirements." We could also include the sentence about "Approved Locations" after that. Approved Locations paragraph: "This position may be based in any Grant Thornton office location within the United States. The role supports integrations across the Americas, with geographic coverage expected to evolve as the firm expands through acquisitions." We'll include that as part of About the role. Now Responsibilities: need to capture all bullet points under Key Responsibilities, Regional Team Leadership, Global IMO Alignment and Governance. Let's extract them. From the text: Key Responsibilities: Americas Integration Delivery - Provide oversight and accountability for integration delivery across the Americas portfolio, including current and future markets added through acquisition, from pre-close planning through Day 1, stabilization, and transition to business ownership. - Lead and develop the program managers responsible for the day-to-day management of individual integrations, ensuring clear ownership, consistent execution, and timely escalation. - Directly manage selected integrations based on transaction size, complexity, risk, or resourcing needs. - Review and challenge integration plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and status reporting across the portfolio. - Establish expectations for governance, workstream coordination, decision-making, and executive reporting, and ensure program managers apply them consistently. - Manage priorities, capacity, and cross-program dependencies across concurrent integrations, adjusting assignments and sequencing as needed. - Coach program managers through complex stakeholder, execution, and escalation issues while holding them accountable for delivery. - Ensure consistent use of IMO playbooks, program-management tools, RAID logs, templates, and reporting standards across all Americas integrations. Regional Team Leadership - Lead, coach, and develop the Americas integration team, including program managers, change management, and program support resources. - Set clear expectations for delivery quality, ownership, escalation, and stakeholder management across the team. - Assign program managers and other resources to integrations based on transaction complexity, risk, timing, and capacity. - Review portfolio demand and team capacity, identifying resource gaps and adjusting priorities or external support as needed. - Build a scalable regional delivery capability through hiring, onboarding, development, performance management, and succession planning. - Direct third-party advisors and contractors, ensuring their work is integrated with the internal team and aligned with IMO standards. Global IMO Alignment and Governance - Serve as the primary Americas representative within the Global IMO, providing visibility into portfolio status, risks, resource needs, and upcoming integration activity. - Participate in global governance and operating cadences, escalating material risks, issues, and decisions with clear recommendations. - Translate Global IMO standards, tools, and playbooks into practical regional execution requirements. - Provide Americas feedback and lessons learned to improve global integration methods, templates, and reporting. - Coordinate with global integration, communications, change management, and other shared resources to align support across the Americas portfolio. - Ensure regional practices remain consistent with Global IMO standards while adapting execution for transaction-specific and market requirements as the Americas portfolio evolves. We'll put all these as

• items. Now Qualifications: bullet list. From text: Qualifications Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree is preferred but not required. 12+ years of experience leading complex, cross-functional programs, including significant experience supporting or leading M&A integrations from pre-close planning through Day 1, stabilization, and transition to business ownership. Experience overseeing multiple concurrent transactions or large-scale programs is strongly preferred. Experience leading, coaching, and developing program managers and integration professionals, and managing internal resources, external advisors, and third-party service providers. Ability to directly manage complex or high-risk integrations when required. Experience establishing integration governance, managing cross-functional workstreams, and overseeing milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and executive reporting. Strong executive communication, judgment, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills, with demonstrated ability to influence senior executives, functional leaders, and acquired-entity leadership in a matrixed environment. Ability to manage competing priorities and operate effectively across multiple transactions, business units, and markets within an evolving Americas portfolio. Professional-services experience and familiarity with member-firm structures are preferred, but