Rob Ward

Small Business Unit Manager

Rob joined the practice in 2003 and progressed within the department up to the level of Client Manager where he looked after a large portfolio of accounting and VAT clients. From May 2020 he takes on the role of head of the newly formed Small Business Unit, which will primarily deal with VAT & book-keeping related work; overseeing the continued rollout of Xero; and offering advisory services and business support, while still maintaining some of his existing client management responsibilities.

When not working, Rob likes to combine two of his biggest passions in life by following his favourite bands around the globe and combining these trips with holidays. He has seen Metallica in concert over 40 times across 17 countries since 2007 and looks forward to adding to these numbers in the future. His favourite gig was a special anniversary event which took place in a very small venue in the band’s hometown of San Francisco. Tickets were won through a lottery open to fans all over the world rather than being purchased, and to top it off the event fell on his birthday.

Slightly more sedate pastimes include quizzes, penpalling, playing guitar, and supporting Tottenham, who have been his team since the glory days of 1991.

Necla Roglic

Audit Manager

Originally from Turkey, Necla graduated from the University of Istanbul, obtaining  an Economic Bachelor’s degree and is fluent in both Turkish and English.

Necla joined Charterhouse in Jan 2007 as a Semi Senior Accountant and qualified as an ACCA member in February 2009. In 2016 she took on the role of Client Manager, where she was responsible for managing her own portfolio of clients and staff. Necla has breadth of experience in audit and accounts, covering a wide range of industries.  Having transitioned to the role of Audit Manager, Necla is currently responsible for delivering the audit work for the organisation and managing a portfolio of clients, utilising a staff resource pool to ensure audits are conducted professionally and on time.

Away from work, she loves spending time with her family, healthy cooking, reading and a variety of exercise, including qi-gong, yoga and swimming.

Poonam Madani

Accounts Manager

Poonam moved to the U.K. after getting married in 2004 and obtained the ACCA qualifications after starting a family. Poonam joined Charterhouse in June 2015 as a Semi Senior Accountant and has progressed to an Accounts Manager where she is responsible for delivery of accounts work for the organisation, managing a portfolio of clients and managing the staff.

Poonam enjoys singing Bollywood songs, cooking and yoga. Poonam enjoys being a mum. Spends her time with the family, friends and attends community events. Poonam can fluently speak 4 languages.

Cem Soydaner

Associate

Cem joined Charterhouse in October 2014 as an accounts semi senior, where he qualified as an ACCA member in 2016. Cem has since excelled in his career to become a client manager where he was responsible for managing his own portfolio of clients, to now becoming the department manager where he is responsible for delivering the audit accounts work for the entire organisation and managing the department.

Cem played amateur football in the Cypriot KOPA league as a goalkeeper and was part of the title winning side in 2015. Cem is a dedicated Tottenham season ticket holder who recently travelled for 16 hours to Madrid to watch Tottenham in the Champions league final. He loves travelling and has visited many countries worldwide. His current favourite destination is Las Vegas.

David White

Executive Director (AFA/MIPA)

David has been with Charterhouse since November 1982 becoming a principal of the business in November 1992. In addition to his role as a business director David heads up the sales and marketing at Charterhouse and is often seen networking with other like-minded professionals. During his time at Charterhouse David has also been responsible for outsourcing, helping to set up support offices in India, Pakistan and Dubai.

In his spare time, David is a keen sportsman so do ask him about his golfing exploits to raise over £35000 for charity, getting his underwater diving licence at 50 and being a Vice President at Surbiton Hockey Club where he enjoyed many successful years.

Raj Jiwani

Executive Director (ATT, CTA)

Raj Jiwani joined Charterhouse in 2006 and is a Chartered Tax Advisor and Probate practitioner with a wide range of experience spanning corporate tax and personal tax planning. Raj looks after a varied portfolio of clients and provides advice to business owners, owner managers, high income earners, businesses (some with turnovers exceeding £100m) and trusts with values in excess of £1m.

Raj has a young family and supports various charities in his little spare time, being the Treasurer of his daughters’ school parents’ association, an advisor to a not for profit community group and regular volunteer for charity and community events.

Raj has recently acquired the fitness bug and enjoys working out at the gym, don’t be surprised to see him pounding the streets in his trainers trying to accumulate some steps for the day!

Raj enjoys travelling and his most memorable holiday thus far is following the Inca Trail to Machu Pichu in Peru, that was some years ago now so he’s always on the lookout for a destination to top it! Don’t ask Raj about football he’ll have no clue about what you are talking about but that’s changing quick with both his daughters being keen footballers and football fans.

Chris James

Associate 

Chris joined as a senior, ran the audit department for a while and is now an Associate.

Chris has his own portfolio of clients but also looks after some of the larger clients for the other directors. He gets involved in valuation as well as due diligence work and has in the past visited Moscow to carry out due diligence work for an oil company.

Chris loves golf but does not play as much as he would like to because of family commitments. He did however win the very first Charterhouse sponsored Golf Day and also, as a part of a team, won a few Business Connection (a networking group) Charity Golf days. Chris is keen on Quizzes and usually forms part of a Charterhouse team with other members of the firm. He also organises a number of Quizzes for Charterhouse itself, the local church and other charity events, where he sets all the questions.

June Wiltshire

Office & Admin Manager

June joined Charterhouse in November 2011 as Office Admin Manager. She looks after the admin and office facilities for Charterhouse and also administers the client database. June was previously Fleet and Office Manager for a High Security Company.

June is a member of a green bowls club and regularly plays matches for the club in the local league.

Nirav Sheth

Associate

Nirav joined Charterhouse in Jan 2007 as a Semi Senior having qualified as an ACCA member in May 2002. He became an Associate in Feb 2017.

Nirav managed the audit and accounts department and has his own portfolio of clients but also assists directors with some their larger clients. His responsibilities also include review of audit work, gets involved in valuation as well as due diligence work and practice assurance work.

Nirav loves playing and watching football, cricket and snooker. He played volleyball back in his school days and has taken part in club competitions. He enjoys watching any sports, movies, dancing and singing Bollywood songs. He also loves Maths and Geography. Nirav speaks Gujarati, English, Hindi and some Arabic.

Neil Rabey

Head of Finance

Neil joined Charterhouse in 2016, initially as the company’s Financial Controller before being promoted to Head of Finance in August 2018.

Neil runs our Finance Department with two staff members reporting to him, dealing with all financial matters relating to the company’s operations. Initially qualifying in Guernsey, Neil’s professional career has taken him to South Africa before returning to the United Kingdom in 2015.

On a personal front, Neil is married with three children who keep him busy most of the time when he is not at work and if there is any time left after that, he enjoys watching sport, especially cricket, football and rugby union.

Rut Stefansdottir

HR Manager

Rut was born in Iceland and has an MA in International Human Resource Management and Employment Relations from the UK. After her BSc in Business Administration she worked for 3 years in a pharmaceutical company in Iceland. Rut joined Charterhouse in 2012 but at the end of 2016 she left the company to go travelling around the world and then returned in August 2017.

Having worked her way up from being an HR Assistant to now being Charterhouse’s HR Manager, Rut is responsible for the Internal HR matters of the business.

Rut has a keen interest in wellbeing, nature and travelling which she tries to combine in her holidays. Her focus is currently on yoga, meditation, hiking and running.

Jigna Shah

Tax Department Manager

Jigna was born in Kenya and moved to the UK to study Accounting & Finance at Nottingham Trent University. Jigna joined the Charterhouse tax team in 2012 after qualifying as a Chartered Tax Advisor. She had previously worked in an accounting practice in Central London for almost 8 years. Jigna now manages the tax department and is also involved in advisory and tax planning aspects at Charterhouse.

Outside of work, Jigna spends her time baking and enjoys going for Zumba classes. Jigna enjoys travelling the world and is a great scuba diver and has swam with Blacktip sharks and Stingrays during her trip to Bora Bora and Fiji. Jigna can fluently speak 4 languages.

Julie Terry

Company Secretary Manager

Julie joined Charterhouse in 1985 and after a break of 2 years rejoined in 1990 making her the longest serving staff member.

She has a passion for travel, be it in the UK or Worldwide, and although there are too many highlights to mention, the most memorable were standing at the edge of Lake Tekapo in New Zealand, watching the Milky Way travel overhead and standing at the edge of the live Masaya Volcano in Nicaragua.

Elaine Lynch

Payroll Manager

Elaine Lynch works as the Payroll Manager and obtained her CIPP qualification while working at International Law firm Allen & Overy. Her career in payroll spans more than 25 years, and she is still very much passionate about payroll.

Elaine has previously worked within large public and private sector organisations and has been actively involved in simple and complex integration projects involving payroll, HR and Finance.

In her role at Charterhouse she offers a flexible payroll service for companies needing to pay employees, whether that be one employee to a large number of employees.

Outside of work Elaine’s time and interests span family, friends and local community activities.
Her claim to fame is that as a teenager she seriously considered athletics, and trained regularly at the same North London track as Steve Ovett, Daley Thompson, and Lord Coe aka Seb!

Javed Siddiqui

Consultant (FCA)

Javed joined Charterhouse in 1999. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant and member of the tax faculty. Javed has over 35 years’ experience in dealing with all aspects of direct taxation including taxation structure, UK and overseas planning and corporate and personal tax. Javed deals with HMRC at the highest levels and specialises in investigations, negotiations and litigations.

Phil Dickinson

Business Director

Phil joined Charterhouse in 2014 and has a wide range of experience in advising owner managed businesses and individuals. Phil works closely with Raj in the running of the tax department and provides advice to a wide variety of clients, particularly on how their businesses or investments are structured.

Phil enjoys travelling and visiting new cities and often buys his plane ticket on arrival at the airport. He is also interested in writing and has previously made contributions to a local business paper.

Micky Ackenson

Managing Director (FCA)

Micky is the founder director of the practice. His particular expertise is commerce and industry with specialist knowledge in franchising. Micky was financial director of a national franchise company and was instrumental in its listing for the London Stock Exchange. Micky enjoys advising on start-up businesses and encouraging their growth. He has retained numerous clients for more than thirty years and in some cases chartered their start to eventual sale.

When you next talk to Micky, see if you can find out when he won a medal as a ‘ringer’ in the M&S London inter-store 5-a-side football competition, how he built Silver Shield into a national company and why seeing Arsenal relegated is on his bucket list!