Year Placement 2025

HW Fisher is a top 30 UK chartered accountancy firm. We are a commercially astute organisation with a personal, partner-led service aimed at entrepreneurial small, medium enterprises (SMEs), large corporates and high-net worth individuals. Our clients come from many different backgrounds and are active in all branches of commerce and industry.

Founded in 1933, the practice comprises 25 partners and approximately 300 staff supplying a range of services spanning audit, corporate taxation, private client services, VAT and forensic accounting, together with a range of sector groups offering specialist industry knowledge.

For this year placement, you will spend 6 months working in our Private Client Department assisting the managers during their busy period, after which you will work in the Audit and Accounts Department.

Your duties and responsibilities will vary. However, whilst you are working in the Private Client Department you will learn to prepare tax returns, liaise with clients, correspond with HMRC and assist the tax managers with ad hoc tasks. You will be trained on our Digita software. Whilst you are working in the Audit and Accounts Department you will learn how to prepare accounts, assist the audit managers with their client portfolios and may have the chance to assist the audit teams with on-site audits as well as carrying out ad hoc tasks. You will be trained on AP and Pro-Audit software.