Top Tax Jobs in Chicago, IL

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.

Lead specialized tax engagements focused on energy incentives and credits. Manage project planning, budgeting, execution and client relationships. Provide tax modeling and legislative guidance, identify optimization opportunities (including R&D credits), ensure compliance, mentor team members, and promote technology and best practices to improve client outcomes.

Lead large global information reporting projects, advise senior clients on tax compliance (FATCA/1441/FBAR), streamline processes through automation, coach teams, and provide strategic tax guidance to multinational financial services clients.

Lead tax strategy and client engagements for financial services real estate clients, advising on international and domestic tax structuring, compliance, risk mitigation, and profit-sharing. Drive business development, oversee multiple projects, mentor teams, ensure regulatory filings accuracy, and build scalable efficiencies while maintaining executive client relationships and ethical standards.

Lead global information reporting tax engagements: ensure compliance, analyze financial data, develop tax strategies, oversee filings, build client relationships, mentor teams, drive business development, and promote technological improvements across PwC network.

Manage tax compliance engagements, communicate with clients, review tax work, provide training, and maintain technical expertise in tax areas.

Manage complex tax returns and consulting for partnerships, mentor staff, and develop tax planning strategies while ensuring compliance with tax regulations.

Manage tax compliance engagements for high net worth clients, lead a team, and ensure timely communication and service delivery.

Manage tax compliance and advisory work, review tax returns, build client relationships, research tax matters, and mentor staff.

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.

Manages US and global direct tax compliance, tax accounting, forecasting, planning, audits, transfer pricing, and tax strategy. Leads a team, reviews income and franchise tax filings, prepares ASC 740 tax provisions and disclosures, monitors legislation, coordinates audits, and communicates recommendations to leadership. The role also drives process improvements using AI-enabled tools, Power BI, and Alteryx while maintaining internal controls and developing team talent.

Manages US indirect tax compliance, audits, accounting, filings, and tax strategy across multiple tax types. Leads audit defense, process improvements, technology transformation initiatives, and a team of tax professionals. Partners with senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to reduce tax burdens, improve data quality, ensure timely compliance, and develop team capabilities and succession plans.

Leads a private client tax team, overseeing compliance, tax return preparation and review, consulting, research, planning, and client relationships. Advises individuals and businesses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, and multi-entity taxation. The role manages complex S-Corp, partnership, individual, and corporate engagements, ensures regulatory compliance, develops tax strategies, and mentors tax professionals.

Owns Box’s US and global indirect tax function, including sales and use tax compliance, return filing, nexus and taxability research, exemption certificate management, audits, and regulatory monitoring. Partners with Finance, Legal, Revenue Operations, Billing, and Product to ensure accurate tax collection and advise on new initiatives. The role also drives process improvements and automation across tax compliance using tax technology, ERP, billing, and CPQ systems.

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.

Supports fiduciary trust tax operations, including tax reporting, filings, payment processing, withholding, return review, and coordination with tax vendors, the IRS, and internal teams. The role ensures accurate and timely tax obligations for trusts and retirement accounts, answers tax-related questions, manages administrative tasks, and helps train junior staff. It requires accounting or finance education, trust and IRA tax knowledge, strong organization, and proficiency with tax systems.

Manage tax compliance, tax accounting, GAAP and statutory tax provisions, tax forecasts, research, planning, government examinations, and financial statement disclosures for Highmark Health and its subsidiaries. Prepare filings, calculations, workpapers, and supporting documentation; monitor tax-law changes; advise management on tax issues and opportunities; coordinate with auditors, government authorities, subsidiaries, and tax staff.

Leads complex tax compliance and advisory engagements for high-net-worth individuals, families, family offices, trusts, estates, partnerships, and closely held businesses. Provides tax planning, wealth preservation, estate and succession guidance, manages client relationships, reviews deliverables, mentors tax professionals, and supports practice development.

Oversee quality and accuracy of corporate tax accounting, compliance, planning, and special-project work. Review tax provisions, returns, transaction impacts, and ASC 740 documentation; lead tax quality assurance for mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures; identify and mitigate tax risks; conduct research; support audits and tax notices; maintain tax procedures and controls; and guide junior staff.

Prepares tax returns and performs audit, review, compilation, and assurance services. Supports multiple client engagements, completes research and special projects, communicates with clients, and develops accounting and industry knowledge through training and hands-on experience.

Provides technical fiduciary tax expertise to Private Bank client teams. Reviews and prepares complex federal and state fiduciary income tax returns, researches tax issues, advises on transaction treatment, ensures compliance with tax laws and bank policies, and delivers tax training and technical support to associates and client teams.

Supports indirect and property tax compliance across multiple jurisdictions by preparing and reconciling tax reports, supporting filings and audits, researching notices, communicating with tax authorities, and resolving discrepancies. The role also manages tax calendars, documentation, payments, and recurring workflows while partnering with accounting, treasury, accounts payable, and operations teams.

Supports indirect and property tax compliance across multiple jurisdictions by preparing and reconciling tax reports, supporting filings and audits, researching tax notices, coordinating with authorities and internal partners, analyzing discrepancies, maintaining tax calendars, and improving recurring workflows. The role requires strong Excel skills, organization, attention to detail, and 1–2 years of accounting, finance, tax, or related compliance experience.

Lead tax information reporting and withholding compliance across domestic and international frameworks, including FATCA, CRS, CARF, DAC7, and U.S. tax rules. Advise product teams on digital asset reporting, oversee tax documentation, withholding, remittance, and annual filings, and partner with technology and operations teams on automated workflows. Lead audits, risk remediation, policy updates, regulatory monitoring, and business requirements development for tax systems.

Maintains customer payroll tax profiles across multiple jurisdictions, processes tax data updates, manages cases and tasks, researches payroll tax discrepancies, and coordinates resolutions with internal teams. Provides customer support on tax configuration and payroll inquiries while monitoring issues affecting filings, payments, funding, and reporting. Uses Excel, Power BI, and other reporting tools to identify exceptions and support decisions. The role requires accuracy, confidentiality, deadline management, and effective virtual collaboration.