Nadeem Muhammed Iqbal, chief accountant, Media One Hotel
ABOUT NADEEM
Nadeem first entered the hospitality industry in 2005 as an Accounts Clerk at the Mercure Grand Hotel, Seef, Bahrain as a part of the pre opening team. His dedication in the role helped him secure a new role as cost clerk for the pre opening team of the InterContinental Hotel Dubai Festival City in 2007. Nadeem also part in the project team in 2009 for the re-branding of Al Bhadia Golf Club. After three years, in June 2010, Nadeem expanded his knowledge again by joining the preopening team of the Pullman Hotel Mall of the Emirates. Here he was a section head and used his initiative in purchasing and setting up a new database that tracked every individual purchase/service linked to reflect the accuracy of the hotel P&L, which in turn saved time in all departments. In July 2011 Nadeem joined Media One as senior accountant and after six months he was promoted to financial accountant, before finally in January 2013 he was promoted to chief accountant.
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WHY WAS HE NOMINATED?
Nadeem ensures that he leads the finance team to deliver the financial statement to the Owners & Asset Managers on the 1st of each month, with a detailed F&B report also submitted by the 6th of the month, which exceeds normal practice at most hotels. Nadeem also handles all the balance sheet reconciliation, bank reconciliation and supplier reconciliation whilst continuing to meet all the set deadlines in an efficient manner. One of the key improvements has been to the hotels purchasing reconciliations by creating codes in the purchasing/inventory system which has assisted in the hotel’s purchasing and stock levels. This has also progressed to an accurate recording and analysis of all F&B promotions which is passed to the marketing team on a fortnightly basis to assist in assessing the success of the various campaigns.
WHAT DID HIS TEAM SAY?
“There is a saying that some people just dream of success and that some work hard on it; the second example is a true description of Nadeem who at the age of 28 has shown remarkable growth within the hotel industry and continually exceeds expectations in all aspects of his work. As an accountant he is an examiner by nature with pragmatic and efficient attributes. He is a team player, passionate about his work and an admirable attitude to work and his colleagues.” Jagdish Rasam, director of finance, Media One Hotel.
WHAT DID HIS SUPPLIERS SAY?
“Nadeem joined Media One Hotel as a Financial Accountant with experience in all major functions of the finance department. He has been a great support from his ‘get up and go’ attitude not only for the functions of the finance department, but also the other departments in the hotel. His hard work and dedication shows through his enthusiasm at work on a daily basis and his unrelenting eagerness to learn something new on the job. He is the’ go to’ person on any operational finance related matter. His passion for the job does not just stop with his own position as he is also very keen to teach and guide other enthusiasts for their own career development. This is an attribute of leadership and professionalism. Thus, it was not long before he was promoted to Chief Accountant; supervising and being responsible for all sections of the department. I would nominate Nadeem for Young Hotelier of the Year as it is not very often you come across a person who exudes passion with such hotelier spirit!” Jawad Qamar, business analysis manager, Roya International [Media One’s asset managers].
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