Accountant
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time.
Description
In this role, you will ensure the accuracy and integrity of the firm’s financial reporting through financial analysis, reporting, reconciliations, and compliance with applicable accounting standards, while contributing to thought leadership in accounting and finance.
This is a hands-on position for an ambitious professional who will also support business development, foster a solution-oriented culture, and help strengthen client relationships by working closely with delivery teams.
In return, you will join a firm committed to professional growth, offering a competitive base salary with performance-linked earning potential.
Key responsibilities
Financial Reporting & Compliance:
Prepare and analyze financial statements (balance sheet, income statement, cash flow) in accordance with the relevant standards, ensuring accuracy and completeness.
Ensure proper revenue recognition and compliance with applicable accounting policies, standards, and guidelines.
Stay up to date with accounting regulations, standards, and best practices.
Financial Close & General Ledger Management:
Prepare month-end and year-end accounts to meet reporting deadlines.
Perform account reconciliations, investigate discrepancies, and implement effective financial controls.
Budgeting, Forecasting & Financial Analysis:
Assist in developing annual budgets and financial forecasts.
Conduct variance analysis to identify trends, risks, and areas for improvement.
Analyze costs, profitability, and variances to support cost efficiency and performance optimization.
Taxation & Statutory Compliance:
Support tax planning and compliance activities, including processing statutory remittances, preparing tax returns.
Audit & Assurance Support:
Support external audits by preparing schedules, responding to audit inquiries, and ensuring compliance with audit requirements.
Business Partnering & Stakeholder Support:
Collaborate with internal departments such as operations to provide financial insights and support business decisions.
Prepare financial reports and presentations to communicate key financial information to management.
Business Development & Revenue Growth:
Support business development initiatives by leveraging financial expertise to identify, develop and drive new business opportunities.
Work closely with service leads to proactively design and execute business development strategies aimed at revenue growth and achievement of targeted results.
Analyze market trends and competitor activity to identify growth opportunities and strengthen AP3 Capital’s market positioning.
Client & Partner Relationship Management:
Build, manage, and sustain strong relationships with associate partner firms, key agencies, and clients that serve as sources of recurring opportunities and consultancy engagements.
Develop and manage client relationships to ensure long-term value creation.
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Culture:
Contribute to a solution-oriented, client-centric culture across multi-disciplinary teams.
Collaborate effectively with internal stakeholders to align business development efforts with service delivery capabilities.
Learning and Capability Building:
Promote a learning culture and excellence in client service delivery across the organization.
Core Competencies & Professional Skills:
Demonstrated strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to engage diverse stakeholders effectively.
Requirements
Bachelor’s Degree (combined with Master's Degree preferred but not required).
5 - 7 years of experience in infrastructure project management, capital & infrastructure projects advisory.
Project feasibility, options appraisal and/or project structuring experience.
Project procurement experience through to financial close.
Understanding the range of transaction advisory services across the infrastructure project lifecycle for public and private sector clients.
Experience with alternative contract types: EPC, PPP, etc. • Experience building and analysing project financial models.
Experience drafting business plans and feasibility studies.
Willing to travel locally and internationally.
Salary
N200,000 - N300,000 / month.
Application Closing Date
27th March, 2026.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send a brief video recording answering the following questions alongside your updated CV to: resourcing@ap3advisory.com using the job title as the subject of the mail.
Note
Assume you are managing the finances of several client projects simultaneously, provide a step-by-step design of a financial model or dashboard that enables management to instantly identify profitable projects, cost overruns, and revenue or cashflow and cash leakages.
Submission instructions:
Upload the final video file to a Google Drive folder.
Ensure the file permissions are set to"Anyone with the link can view/access."
Share the Google Drive link in a direct reply to the email above.