Profile

Murtaza Jessa is a partner at London based accounting firm, haysmacintyre, specialising in charities and not for profit organisations. As well as audit and accounting support, Jessa has been involved in all aspects of advising charities including Charity Commission review visits, advice on mergers, structure and set up of trading subsidiaries, business plan facilitation, set up of affiliated overseas charities, overseas branch offices and advice on internal controls.

Overview

Sector expertise
Jessa’s portfolio consists of a wide range of charities and not for profit organisations including grant making charities, medica research charities, law centres and citizens advice bureaus, environmental, disability, charities working internationally, conflict resolution, membership organisations, lobbying organisations, human rights, training and educational.

After qualifying as Chartered Accountant in 1986, Jessa joined KPMG at their London office where, in addition to carrying out audit and special assignments such as mergers, management buyouts and due diligence, he was in charge of the tax work in the department. In January 1990, Jessa left KPMG to start Trustient. Over the years, Trustient, under the leadership of Jessa gained excellent reputation of auditing and advising clients in the not for profit sector and Jessa headed up the division. With effect form 24 July 2006, Trustient merged with haymacintyre and Jessa is now a partner at haysmacintyre.

Jessa is a regular contributor to the charity publications and speaks at sector conferences. He uses much of his spare time working for voluntary organisations and socialising.

Honours Achieved

• Treasurer for Institute for War and Peace Reporting, 09/1999-09/2004
• founding trustees of Health, Education and resources for Tomorrow (HEART), 01/2006-

Professional Memberships

• ICAEW, -

Languages Spoken

• English