Sr Tax Analyst

About the role

The Senior Tax Analyst plays a key role on Cboe's Finance – Tax team, ensuring compliance with U.S., state and local, and foreign income and indirect tax laws. This role prepares tax calculations, estimated tax payments, returns, and tax authority correspondence, along with U.S. and non-U.S. tax provision calculations, reconciliations, and journal entries. The Senior Tax Analyst identifies process improvements, uses technology to increase efficiency, and partners strategically with business leaders to reduce risk and strengthen compliance. This role works independently on assignments of moderate complexity, serves as a go-to resource for less experienced colleagues, and reports to the Tax Director. Cboe Global Markets operates a key office in the Overland Park Xchange (OPx), located in Overland Park, Kansas, a bustling suburb of Kansas City. The OPx business park is strategically positioned to provide convenient access to the Kansas City metropolitan area, offering modern infrastructure and a collaborative environment ideal for the financial services and technology industries. This location benefits from proximity to major highways, making it easily accessible for employees. The OPx site provides a balance of high-quality office space, advanced facilities, and an environment conducive to productivity and growth. We’re reimagining the future of the workplace by focusing on what matters most, our people. Our journey is an inclusive one. We’re investing deeply in leadership programs and career development initiatives that ensure everyone has an equal chance to succeed. We work with purpose, solving problems with ingenuity, collaboration, and a lot of passion. We’re an engaged and excited team connecting markets across borders and embracing growth in all its forms to achieve incredible outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Prepare quarterly and annual income tax provisions, including annual effective tax rate calculations and reconciliations
• Prepare and maintain book-to-tax reconciliations and workpapers supporting permanent and temporary differences
• Maintain, roll forward, and reconcile income tax balance sheet accounts, including current payable and receivable accounts, uncertain tax position reserves, and deferred tax assets and liabilities
• Maintain the Excel provision model, load attributes into OneSource Tax Provision, and reconcile results
• Prepare income tax journal entries and complete monthly sign-off sheets covering provision calculations and account rollforwards
• Prepare the annual return-to-provision analysis, period-over-period variance analyses, and annual statutory tax provisions for Cboe's regulated entities
• Prepare book-to-tax adjustments and supporting workpapers for U.S. federal and state income tax returns
• Prepare estimated tax analyses and remit required payments
• Review monthly sales tax billing, file sales tax returns, and remit required payments
• Prepare and file GST and VAT returns and remit related payments
• Reconcile sales tax accounts monthly
• Prepare responses to federal, state, and local tax authority inquiries, support examinations, and respond to external auditor requests
• Maintain the Tax Calendar and Cboe Tax checklists in Confluence
• Work within the Tax Risk Control Matrix and SOX narrative, maintaining preparer and reviewer segregation

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in accounting and at least five years of tax experience in public accounting or corporate tax (required)
• Master's degree in accounting or taxation with at least three years of experience also considered