Who is Gateway Foundation?

Gateway Foundation, Inc. is a national non-profit dedicated to helping individuals with substance use and mental health disorders. Established in 1968, Gateway provides essential tools and knowledge for recovery, positively impacting hundreds of thousands of lives. Operating through its Community Services, Corrections Divisions, and Corporate Headquarters, the organization is recognized for innovative, effective treatment approaches and maintaining high standards.

Why join us?

Discover a rewarding career where you can find both personal and professional fulfillment while aligning your values with your work. You'll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact by aiding individuals in overcoming addiction. We pride ourselves on being an organization that values you and strives to be an employer of choice, fostering a vibrant culture that promotes teamwork and professional growth. Your voice matters here; we actively listen to and value our employees' thoughts, allowing you to be part of organizational decisions.Join Gateway Foundation today and become part of a team dedicated to making a positive difference in the lives of others.

Role Summary

The Senior Finance Business Partner serves as a strategic advisor and business partner responsible for transforming financial, operational, clinical, workforce, and business data into actionable insights that support decision-making, improve performance, and advance organizational goals. This position combines traditional financial planning and analysis responsibilities with modern analytics, business intelligence, automation, and responsible artificial intelligence capabilities. The ideal candidate demonstrates strong analytical curiosity, embraces emerging technologies, challenges assumptions, validates data and AI-generated outputs, and proactively identifies opportunities to improve organizational effectiveness, forecast accuracy, operational efficiency, and data-driven decision making.

Why This Role Matters

The Senior Finance Business Partner helps leaders convert data into insight and insight into action. Through financial analysis, business partnership, emerging technologies, and continuous improvement, this role supports informed decision-making that enhances financial performance, operational effectiveness, service delivery outcomes, and organizational impact.

Core Competencies

• Strategic Financial Planning & Analysis
• Business Partnership & Decision Support
• Data Analytics & Performance Measurement
• Financial Modeling & Scenario Planning
• Technology, Automation, Artificial Intelligence & Responsible AI Use
• Data Governance, Data Quality & Analytical Controls
• Predictive Analytics, Forecasting & Scenario Simulation
• Communication & Data Storytelling
• Process Improvement & Innovation
• Grants, Contracts & Funding Analysis
• Project Management & Organizational Collaboration
• Change Management & Continuous Learning

What You Will Do

Strategic Business Partnership

• Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership, directors, managers, and operational teams.
• Partner with leaders to evaluate financial performance, operational effectiveness, and strategic opportunities.
• Build credibility with leaders throughout the organization and influence decision-making through insightful analysis, sound business judgment, and thoughtful recommendations.
• Translate complex financial and operational information into actionable recommendations.

Financial Planning & Analysis

• Lead annual budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, and scenario modeling efforts.
• Develop and enhance financial models for decision support.
• Conduct pricing, contract, and strategic financial analyses.

Analytics, Technology & Artificial Intelligence

• Leverage approved emerging technologies, automation solutions, generative AI tools, and analytics platforms to improve finance and business decision support.
• Identify, design, and implement opportunities to automate repetitive reporting, data preparation, reconciliation, variance analysis, and narrative generation processes.
• Use AI-assisted analysis responsibly by validating outputs, documenting assumptions, identifying limitations, and ensuring results are explainable and appropriate for business use.
• Develop practical prompts, workflows, and reusable templates that improve productivity, consistency, and analytical quality across finance processes.
• Partner with stakeholders across the organization to support effective use of analytics, automation, reporting technologies, and AI-enabled tools that improve decision-making and operational performance.
• Support optimization of finance, operational, clinical, and business intelligence reporting platforms, including ERP, Power BI, SQL-based reporting, and other approved analytics tools.

Data Analytics & Performance Measurement

• Develop KPIs, dashboards, scorecards, self-service reporting tools, and management reporting packages that connect financial results to operational drivers.
• Analyze financial, operational, workforce, clinical, and service-delivery data to identify trends, risks, anomalies, root causes, and improvement opportunities.
• Support predictive analytics, forecasting, scenario simulation, and enterprise analytics initiatives that improve planning accuracy and decision speed.
• Strengthen data quality by reconciling source data, documenting metric definitions, maintaining reporting logic, and promoting consistent use of trusted data sources.
• Translate analytical findings into clear business narratives, visualizations, and recommendations for finance and non-finance audiences.

Reporting & Executive Decision Support

• Prepare analyses, dashboards, executive summaries, and presentations for leadership.
• Develop decision-support materials that include options, assumptions, financial implications, operational considerations, risks, and recommended actions.
• Create concise, insight-oriented commentary that explains performance drivers, forecast changes, budget variances, and emerging trends.

Grants, Contracts & Strategic Initiatives

• Support grant budgets, contract analysis, and funding proposals.
• Participate in strategic projects and organizational initiatives.

Process Improvement & Organizational Development

• Identify opportunities to improve reporting, planning, analytical, and business processes through standardization, automation, and improved data flows.
• Lead or support cross-functional improvement initiatives from problem definition through implementation, adoption, and results monitoring.
• Promote innovation, data-driven decision making, and practical adoption of new tools by helping stakeholders understand benefits, risks, and changes to workflow.
• Stay current on finance transformation, analytics, automation, and AI trends, and recommend practical applications that align with organizational priorities.

What We Are Looking For

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, Data Analytics, Business Analytics, Information Systems, or related field. Minimum 3-5 years of relevant experience in financial planning and analysis, finance business partnership, analytics, reporting, or decision support. Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills required. Demonstrated experience using data, reporting tools, automation, or AI-enabled solutions to improve analysis, reporting, forecasting, or business processes required.

Preferred Qualifications

Healthcare, behavioral healthcare, nonprofit, or human services experience. Experience with ERP systems, reporting platforms, AI-enabled tools, Power BI, Power Query, SQL, Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT, Tableau, Python, RPA, data visualization, predictive analytics, or similar technologies. Experience with data governance, metric definitions, data quality, dashboard development, workflow automation, or AI-assisted analysis preferred. MBA, CPA, CMA, data analytics certification, Power BI certification, or related credential preferred.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Strong analytical curiosity, communication skills, business acumen, strategic thinking, adaptability, and ability to build productive relationships across organizational levels. Ability to structure ambiguous problems, ask effective analytical questions, develop and validate assumptions, interpret AI-assisted outputs, communicate uncertainty, protect confidential information, and translate technical concepts into practical business recommendations. Demonstrated commitment to continuous learning and responsible use of technology. Demonstrates intellectual curiosity and proactively seeks to understand the operational, financial, and strategic drivers of organizational performance.

Reporting Relationships

Reports directly to the Director of Financial Planning & Analysis. Works collaboratively with executive leadership and cross-functional stakeholders. Has no direct supervisory responsibility but may lead projects and initiatives.

Benefits at Gateway Foundation:

Health and Wellness:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents
• Employee wellness program promoting health and fitness and offering cash-saving premiums
• Employee assistance programs focused on mental health

Financial wellbeing:

• 403(b) Retirement Plan with 3% employer match 
• Short-term and Long-term Disability and Life and AD&D Insurance paid for by Gateway
• Flexible Spending Accounts for medical and dependent care
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF)

Flexibility and time off:

• 18 paid time off days per year – accrual rates increase with years of service
• 9 paid company holidays
• Work-life-balance

Personal Development:

• Training & Development Programs
• Tuition Reimbursement - up to $5,250 per calendar year
• eLearning access to online courses that provide CEU’s and job-related training
• Clinical Supervision: Formal and informal guidance

Gateway Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Race/Color/Sex/Sexual Orientation/ Gender Identity/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Vets. Please view Equal Employment Opportunity Posters provided by OFCCP here.