Operational Accountant at Protégé Management

Protégé Management is a premier boutique executive search and human capital advisory firm dedicated to helping organisations solve their most demanding leadership needs and HR challenges.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Operational Accountant

Location: Lekki, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary
The job responsibilities include but not limited to these:

• Manage Core Accounting: Bookkeeping, reporting, compliance with Nigerian financial standards, and financial close.
• Integrate with Operations: Work closely with production, supply chain, engineering, and plant leadership.
• Support Decision-Making: Provide cost insight, forecasting, budgeting, and operational performance metrics.
• Ensure Business readiness help set up systems/processes that bridge finance and operations.

Job Responsibilities

• Leads the Nigeria operations legal entity’s financial accounting, reporting and control activities; ensuring they are carried out efficiently and in line with best practice and statutory requirements.
• Coordinate with external auditors and regulatory authorities.
• Maintain general ledger and support accounting close cycles.
• Cost Accounting and Product Costing: Develop and maintain cost accounting systems for materials, labour, and overhead.
• Calculate standard costs, actual costs, and variance analysis.
• Generate cost per unit reports to support pricing and margin decisions.
• Track manufacturing cost drivers (efficiency, scrap, and downtime).
• Budgeting, Forecasting and Planning: Build operational budgets with production, supply chain, engineering.
• Produce rolling forecasts tied to production plans and sales pipelines. Scenario modeling (e.g. raw material price changes, and capacity expansion).
• Operational Support and Analysis: Collaborate with operations to monitor KPIs, throughput, yield rates, machine utilization, inventory days, work-in-process, order fulfillment and backlog metrics, identify cost reduction or process improvement opportunities, support capex planning for plant assets and machinery.
• Systems and Controls: Help implement or improve ERP/MRP systems; define accounting and operational internal controls; ensure accurate costing data is flowing through system.
• Cash Flow and Working Capital Management: Monitor cash flow tied to production schedules.
• Track receivables, payables, inventories, and supplier payment terms.
• Support treasury planning aligned with operational needs.

Job Requirements

• Candidates should possess a B.Sc. /BA Accounting, Finance and related courses.
• Must have 3-7+ years post qualification experience in manufacturing or production environment highly preferred.
• Experience with cost accounting and variance analysis.
• Excellent understanding of supply chain and inventory processes.
• Diploma or certification in lean manufacturing, six sigma, operations management or production and inventory management is a plus.
• In-depth knowledge of accounting principles, laws.
• Professional membership of ICAN, ACCA etc.
• Solid knowledge of financial analysis and forecasting. I.T Proficiency.
• Behavioural Competencies: An analytical mind with strategic abilities.
• Excellent organisational and leadership skills.
• Outstanding communication skills.

Application Closing Date
5th March, 2026.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV (PDF file) to: jobs@protegemanagement.com.ng using the Job Title as the subject of the email.