Miller Cooper is seeking a Transaction Advisory Services, Tax Manager or Senior Manager to join our growing team!
With over 105 years of independent, client-focused service in Chicagoland, we've grown organically—never through mergers or acquisitions. That means more opportunity, more impact, and a real voice in your department and your career.
Firm Highlights:
- Crain’s Chicago 10th largest firm (2024), Accounting Today’s 55th largest firm in the US, 10th in the Great Lakes region (2025).
- Largest local, independent public accounting firm in Chicago.
- Large Firm Opportunities, Small Firm Culture.
- The opportunity to work in various industries, including Manufacturing, Distribution, Real Estate, Construction, Tech, Start-Ups and more.
- Hybrid work environment with flexible locations- your choice of offices in Chicago, Deerfield, and Downers Grove.
- Culture of collaboration. We win as a team; we lose as a team.
How We Will Invest in You:
- Mentorship. Everyone has a mentor to help you grow and develop the career you want and build relationships throughout the firm.
- Career growth. We recognize good work and are proud to offer promotions at an accelerated pace compared to the industry average and offer continued learning to support you.
- Variety of work. We help you foster business relationships and gain a variety of experience by working on a range of clients and industries.
- Flexibility. We focus on balancing schedules and recognize the importance of having time to unplug and recharge. We don’t mandate a yearly billable hour requirement.
How You Will Contribute:
- Manage multiple concurrent buy-side and sell-side tax transaction advisory engagements primarily for lower middle market companies.
- Work closely with clients, target companies, investment bankers, and financial due diligence and core tax teams.
- Assist in the performance of tax due diligence, assist in acquisition and disposition structuring, evaluate the benefits of basis step-up elections, assess purchase price allocation methodologies and review purchase agreements.
- Perform complex, quantitative analyses to assess tax consequences of transactions.
- Responsible for execution of engagements within tight timelines and manage inflow of data and follow up requests.
- Review comprehensive tax due diligence reports.
- Identify issues affecting purchase price, deal structure, or deal termination.
- Up to 20% tax compliance reviewing acquisition year tax returns, perform purchase price allocations and communicate transaction details to tax team.
- Have strong federal tax knowledge of corporations, S corporations and partnerships.
- Have general knowledge of state and local taxation.
- Able to work on multiple engagement in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines.
About YOU!
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in taxation.
- CPA preferred or eligible to sit (with 150 credit hours) and working towards obtaining CPA.
- 6 - 10 years of corporate and partnership tax experience, experience in tax transaction advisory is preferred
- Strong tax technical knowledge of C Corporation, Subchapter S Corporation, and partnership taxation issues
- Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills
- Passion for client service and an entrepreneurial mindset
- DAILY ACCESS TO RELIABLE TRANSPORTATION to travel to and from and our office locations
- Strong collaboration skills and desire to work as a team
What we offer:
- Competitive benefits package
- Generous paid time off that increase with tenure (up to the firm max)
- 401K profit sharing
- Discretionary performance-based annual bonuses (for eligible employees)
- Paid Parental leave
- 8 hours of paid volunteer time
- CPA exam incentives
- Team lunches every Tuesday
- Miller Cooper Communities (employee resource groups)
- Employee and client referral bonus program
- Commuter Benefits
Individual salaries that are offered to a candidate are determined after consideration of numerous factors including internal salary alignment, market data, and the candidate’s qualifications- including, but not limited to, specialty skills, prior relevant industry experience, and relevant degrees or certifications (e.g., CPA, JD). The salary range estimated below is inclusive of all departments within the Firm, and offered salaries may vary within the given range depending on the specific department. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this level is $100,000 – $190,000, not including discretionary annual bonus and other competitive benefits.
