Careers

Join Our Team and Grow Your Career

At Fairhurst we value and nurture our expanding team. We offer flexible working hours, competitive rates of pay, holiday allowance increasing with length of service, pension plan, life assurance, and free on-site parking.

We are an accredited training provider with ICAEW (ACA), ACCA and AAT and are committed to providing the highest standard of learning, training, and career development for our students. We also ensure our existing qualified members are given all the resources they need to meet their CPD requirements.

Our employee assistance programme offers access to well-being, counselling, GP and physiotherapy services. We also offer a benefits package including cycle to work schemes and discount clubs.

We support local charities such as Wigan Youth Zone (Silver Patron) and hold regular charity fundraising and staff social events. We are also proud sponsors of the Wigan Warriors Academy & Scholarship teams. 

We are always interested in receiving CV’s from high calibre recruits at all levels. If you are interested in joining the team, then please email your CV to: careers@fairhurstaccountants.com

Current Vacancies

Assistant Accounts Manager (Small Business Unit)

Accounts Senior (Small Business Unit)

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July 13, 2026

Proposed offence for reckless, untrue tax statements

HMRC have proposed a new criminal offence for making reckless, untrue statements or declarations about what's known as 'direct taxes' - Income Tax, National Insurance and the like. For Customs and Excise and VAT ('indirect taxes'), it is already possible to prosecute individuals who make untrue statements or submit incorrect documents either knowingly or recklessly, without the need to prove dishonesty. The penalties for such offences can be severe, including substantial fines and imprisonment. The direct tax regime does not currently contain an equivalent offence.
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July 9, 2026

Britain's yearly £44m health & safety violations bill

A new Freedom of Information (FOI) request has discovered that health and safety violations cost British employers over £44 million per year. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) revealed that serious breaches have resulted in an increasing number of prosecutions between 2023 and 2025.
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