Top Tax Associate Jobs in Chicago, IL

Supports global income tax provision, ASC 740 accounting, tax forecasting, financial reporting disclosures, account reconciliations, and non-U.S. tax compliance. Maintains tax provision software and compliance calendars, gathers Pillar Two/GloBE data, supports audits and tax authority inquiries, and contributes to cross-functional process improvement and automation initiatives.

Performs tax compliance and advisory work for asset and wealth management clients. Reviews financial data, prepares tax returns and workpapers, researches tax law, identifies filing risks, and supports technical issue resolution. Coordinates engagement workstreams, manages deadlines, communicates with clients, reviews junior team members’ work, and improves recurring tax compliance processes.

Prepares quarterly and year-end income tax provisions, federal, state, and local tax returns, estimated payments, and apportionment data. Supports tax research, notices, tax planning, forecasting, transfer pricing, controls documentation, and process improvements. Coordinates with finance and corporate teams, monitors tax law changes, and maintains tax software and ledger expertise. The role requires strong knowledge of ASC 740, tax accounting research, return preparation, Excel, and corporate tax processes.

Provide tax planning, compliance, and strategy for insurance clients: analyze financial data, prepare and file tax returns, validate regulatory compliance, draft tax documents, identify optimization opportunities, develop client relationships, navigate complex situations, and mentor junior staff.

Provide tax advice to financial services clients (real estate focus), manage local and international tax matters, advise on pricing between related parties, support tax structuring for transactions, drive digitization and automation, mentor junior staff, build client relationships, and uphold professional and technical standards.

Advise private companies and high-net-worth clients on partnership tax planning and compliance. Analyze complex tax issues, mentor team members, deliver high-quality reports, build client relationships, leverage technology and spreadsheets, and support business development and innovation.

Provide tax advisory to private companies and high net worth clients, analyze complex tax issues for US subsidiaries, mentor junior staff, build client relationships, promote process standardization and uphold professional standards while using technical tools to drive efficiency.

Provide specialized tax advice on complex areas including R&D tax credits and accounting methods. Analyze tax regulations, optimize client tax positions, document strategies, and uphold PwC technical standards. Collaborate with clients, mentor junior staff, build relationships, and apply analytical and technical writing skills to support tax planning and compliance in a hybrid professional environment.

Provide specialized tax advice on complex areas (accounting methods, fixed-assets, R&D and energy tax credits), analyze tax structures, advise on compliance and planning, build client relationships, mentor juniors, and apply changing legislation to optimize client tax positions.

Provide tax advisory and compliance services to banking and capital markets clients, including tax structuring, cross-border transaction guidance, financial statement tax analysis, regulatory compliance, and operational tax risk management. Mentor junior staff, build client relationships, conduct tax research, and deliver strategic solutions that align with clients' business objectives while staying current on tax regulations.

Lead and contribute to State and Local Tax strategy for financial services clients, analyze complex SALT issues (income, franchise, payroll, credits, indirect tax, abandoned property), recommend compliance and tax planning solutions, mentor junior staff, and drive digitization and automation to increase efficiencies while building client relationships.

Perform tax form and regulation research, interpret tax code updates, guide programmers on calculation changes, design and execute tests, document calculations, contribute release notes and customer guidance, and support tax software products remotely.

Provides fiduciary tax administration and trust operations support for trusts, estates, charitable entities, guardianships, and agency accounts. Responsibilities include coordinating tax filings and documents, tracking deadlines, processing tax payments, resolving notices, reviewing account tax data, supporting account openings and closings, processing transactions, maintaining records, responding to inquiries, and assisting with audits and compliance reviews.

Manage sales tax compliance for clients, including state and local tax returns, registrations, business licenses, exemption certificates, tax accruals, reserves, journal entries, and use tax matters. The role involves supervising staff, managing information, communicating with clients and tax authorities, resolving issues, and collaborating with tax professionals across the firm.

Prepare and review individual, partnership, S-corporation, and other tax returns, including complex filings, Form 3115, and 1031 exchanges. Review supporting documentation, identify missing information, communicate with clients, resolve tax notices, maintain accurate workpapers, and assist with proposals, training materials, and process projects. The role is fully remote and requires strong time management, communication, client service, ethics, and ongoing professional development.

Supports screening, underwriting, modeling, structuring, and closing of tax equity and preferred equity transactions in renewable energy and infrastructure. Responsibilities include analyzing sponsor financials, contracts, diligence materials, transaction economics, risks, portfolio performance, and investment committee materials. The Associate also improves financial models and workflows, uses AI-enabled tools, supports external stakeholders, and contributes to technology-enabled financing initiatives.

Supports tax administration and reporting for exchange-traded funds. Responsibilities include calculating dividend and capital gain distributions, preparing tax returns and shareholder reporting adjustments, monitoring book-to-tax differences, coordinating tax disclosures and provisions, and researching tax impacts across securities. The role partners with fund administration leadership, auditors, and clients while helping expand tax administration services.

Prepare and review federal and state tax returns, primarily for partnerships and other flow-through entities. Manage client engagements from planning through completion, research tax issues, review workpapers, resolve technical comments, and communicate directly with clients. Provide coaching to junior staff, collaborate with onshore and offshore teams, and use tax technology and automation to improve service delivery.

Prepare, supervise, and review individual, corporate, and partnership tax engagements. Provide clients with customized tax advisory services, research complex tax issues, manage engagements, and support operational excellence. Develop and train team members while expanding technical knowledge through client interaction, self-study, and training.

Provide federal income tax research and analysis for partnerships, S and C corporations; support M&A tax structuring, internal restructurings, and due diligence; draft memos, firm alerts, and training materials; mentor and advance within the National Tax Office.

The Corporate Tax Senior Associate will manage tax projects, supervise associates, and handle client engagements while maintaining client relationships and ensuring compliance.

Manage federal, state, local, and international tax compliance, including income, sales and use, VAT, withholding, and property taxes. Oversee tax filings, reconciliations, projections, audits, controls, regulatory monitoring, third-party consultants, and tax planning. Drive process improvements, support internal and external audits, prepare journal entries, and communicate tax risks and opportunities to leadership. The role may require occasional evenings or weekends.

Prepare complex partnership and corporate tax returns involving transactional tax matters, reorganizations, basis adjustments, waterfall allocations, multi-state exposure, and 1031 exchanges. Support private equity and family office clients, conduct technical tax research, resolve issues with senior team members, and gradually assume review responsibilities while managing multiple engagements remotely.

Support M&A tax engagements from due diligence through structuring and transaction modeling. Perform tax due diligence, prepare and analyze transaction tax data, assist with restructuring and tax research, review work of junior staff, and collaborate with Managers and Partners to deliver high-quality client deliverables on multiple deals.

The Senior Tax Associate prepares various tax returns and supports the development of interns, while contributing to client relationships and team management.