Accountant at AP3advisory

AP3 Capital is a specialist professional services and portfolio management firm that delivers a range of Business Assurance Services, Transaction Advisory Services, Policy & Research, and Investment Portfolio Management services. This is a unique and exciting opportunity for a growth-minded individual with entrepreneurial, leadership, and problem-solving skills who is committed to developing a career in the professional services industry to join our transaction advisory services team. Our transaction services team adds value by helping our clients mobilise project finance to structure and deliver large-scale infrastructure projects. We take a client-centred approach to delivering professional services to public and private sector clients and development finance institutions.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Accountant

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Summary

• 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Skills:

• Good interpersonal skills.
• Highly numerate, with exceptional oral and written communication skills, with demonstrable quantitative and qualitative data analysis skills, and proficiency in the use of Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Internet tools.
• Excellent writing, presentation, and analytics skills in a range of formats (briefings, reports, summaries, etc.) and to a range of audiences.
• Proven capabilities of working effectively and constructively with diverse, inter-cultural, interdisciplinary, and high-impact teams across multiple locations and time zones.
• Strong technical, analytical, and problem-solving capabilities.
• The right approach and experience to manage team and client relationships and really support our ambition of being a world-class professional services firm. • Self-starter who drives individual projects and takes ownership of outcomes.

Salary
N200,000 - N300,000 / month.

Application Closing Date
27th February, 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