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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # SAP S/4HANA FI/CO Functional Specialist - **Company:** Amphastar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - **Location:** Rancho Cucamonga, CA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $115,000.0 - $165,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Microsoft Access, Advanced Business Application Programming (ABAP), Information Systems, Data Validation, SAP ERP, SAP (Applications), SAP CO, SAP FI, SAP FI/CO, SAP Sales and Distribution, SAP PP (Production Planning), SAP Profit Center Accounting, SAP Business Technology Platform, Sap Fiori, Information Technology, SAP S/4HANA, Data Management - **Published:** September 16, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=ea0175c6243763d8 ## About the Role * Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field. * At least six years of hands-on SAP FI/CO functional experience, including practical SAP S/4HANA production support. * Strong understanding of financial accounting, controlling, master data, financial closing, and management-reporting processes. * Hands-on experience configuring and supporting key FI/CO components through SPRO. * Experience supporting month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing activities. * Strong knowledge of FI/CO integration with MM, SD, PP, inventory, procurement, manufacturing, and sales processes. * Experience preparing functional specifications and working with ABAP developers or other technical resources. * Experience with incident management, root-cause analysis, testing, change management, and production support. * Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and problem-solving skills. * Ability to manage multiple priorities and respond effectively to time-sensitive production issues. Preferred Qualifications: * Experience participating in an SAP S/4HANA implementation, migration, go-live, or post-go-live hypercare program. * Experience supporting SAP S/4HANA in a RISE with SAP or private-cloud environment. * Experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical-device, manufacturing, or another regulated industry. * Knowledge of FDA-regulated operations, SOX controls, validated computerized systems, and segregation-of-duties requirements. * Experience with SAP Fiori, Material Ledger, actual costing, product costing, or profitability analysis. * Familiarity with SAP BTP, IAG, IAS, SAC, or related SAP applications. * SAP S/4HANA Finance or Management Accounting certification is preferred but not required., * Bachelor's (Preferred) Experience: * SAP: 6 years (Preferred) ## Description The specialist will serve as a key liaison among Finance, Controlling, Information Technology, and external SAP support partners. The successful candidate will combine hands-on SAP FI/CO expertise with strong knowledge of accounting, management accounting, cross-module integration, incident resolution, testing, documentation, and user support. This position is on-site., Production Support and Troubleshooting * Provide daily functional support to Finance and Controlling users following SAP S/4HANA go-live. * Investigate and resolve incidents involving financial postings, reporting, master data, configuration, authorizations, interfaces, and integrated business processes. * Analyze reported issues, identify root causes, document resolutions, and recommend corrective or preventive actions. * Support urgent production issues that could affect financial operations, period-end closing, regulatory reporting, or business continuity. * Manage support tickets through resolution, communicate status to users, and escalate complex technical issues to SAP Basis, ABAP, security, integration, or external support teams. * Coordinate with external consultants during hypercare and subsequent application-support activities while building sustainable internal support capability. SAP FI Functional Support * Support General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Asset Accounting, bank accounting, payment processes, tax-related transactions, financial master data, and reporting. * Troubleshoot document posting, clearing, reversal, account-determination, reconciliation, and financial-close issues. * Assist users with business-process questions and ensure solutions follow approved accounting procedures and system controls. SAP CO Functional Support * Support Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Product Costing, allocations, settlement, planning, budgeting, and actual-versus-plan reporting. * Troubleshoot manufacturing-cost, profitability, cost-allocation, settlement, and variance-analysis issues. * Support Material Ledger and actual costing where applicable. Financial Closing and Reporting * Support monthly, quarterly, and annual closing activities and help ensure critical tasks are completed accurately and on schedule. * Resolve posting errors, reconciliation discrepancies, allocation problems, settlement errors, and reporting issues. * Support reconciliation among the general ledger, subledgers, controlling, inventory, manufacturing, sales, and related business processes. * Assist Finance users with financial statements, account balances, cost reports, management reporting, and data validation. Configuration, Testing, and Improvement * Review and maintain SAP FI/CO configuration through SPRO and approved change-management procedures. * Translate Finance and Controlling requirements into practical SAP functional solutions. * Prepare functional specifications for reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements, forms, and workflows. * Work with ABAP developers and technical teams to design, test, and implement approved changes. * Perform unit, integration, regression, and user-acceptance testing; document test cases, results, defects, resolutions, and approvals. * Identify opportunities to improve automation, data quality, controls, usability, reporting, and system stability. Cross-Module Integration * Troubleshoot FI/CO integration with Materials Management (MM), Sales and Distribution (SD), Production Planning (PP), Extended Warehouse Management (EWM), procurement, inventory, manufacturing, shipping, and billing. * Investigate accounting-document discrepancies originating from purchasing, goods movements, production, sales, delivery, billing, and other integrated processes. * Collaborate with functional, technical, EDI, reporting, and integration teams to resolve end-to-end process issues. Compliance and Knowledge Transfer * Support SOX controls, audit requests, change management, segregation of duties, access reviews, and financial compliance activities. * Maintain configuration documents, process flows, troubleshooting guides, support procedures, and knowledge-base articles. * Provide training and knowledge transfer to Finance users and internal support staff., Amphastar reports payments and other transfers of value to health care providers as required by federal and state transparency laws and implementing regulations. These laws and regulations require Amphastar to provide government agencies with information such as a health care provider's name, address and the type of payments or other value received, generally for public disclosure. Subject to further legal review and statutory or regulatory clarification, which Amphastar intends to pursue, reimbursement of recruiting expenses for licensed physicians may constitute a reportable transfer of value under the federal transparency law commonly known as the Sunshine Act. Therefore, if you are a licensed physician who incurs recruiting expenses as a result of interviewing with Amphastar that we pay or reimburse, your name, address and the amount of payments made currently will be reported to the government.