Beacon Mental Health, a respected community based behavioral health organization serving the Kansas City region, is seeking its next Chief Financial Officer. This search aims to identify a collaborative, mission aligned financial leader who can partner closely with the Chief Executive Officer and a dedicated and compassionate Board to strengthen financial operations and support the organization's continued service to the community.
This is a meaningful opportunity to join an organization that is deeply trusted across the communities it serves and is positioned to strengthen its financial foundation. As a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic serving Clay, Platte, and Ray counties, Beacon operates in a complex public funding environment and is focused on modernizing financial systems, improving automation, and increasing transparency and consistency across financial operations.
Beacon is grounded in a strong mission, long standing community relationships, and a dedicated workforce committed to providing accessible, high quality behavioral health services. The organization offers a compelling platform for a thoughtful, adaptable, and people centered financial leader to make a lasting impact by strengthening infrastructure, supporting service growth, and ensuring financial sustainability for the communities that rely on Beacon's care. (https://www.beaconmentalhealth.org/)
About Beacon Mental Health
Beacon Mental Health, a roughly $40M not-for-profit established in 1990 as Tri-County Mental Health Services, has evolved into a leading behavioral health provider serving communities in the Clay, Platte, and Ray counties of metropolitan Kansas City, Missouri. Originally founded to address unmet needs for mental health care in the Northland region, Beacon has grown in scope and impact over the years. Today, Beacon's mission is to provide prevention and recovery-oriented mental health and substance use services that are person-centered, quality assured, and accessible to all individuals and families in its service
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Beacon operates within a complex public behavioral health funding landscape, supported by local levies, Medicaid, state and federal contracts, and grants, enabling the agency to serve individuals regardless of their ability to pay. The organization works collaboratively with community partners, including public health centers, schools, law enforcement, and social service agencies, to expand access and ensure continuity of care.
Each year Beacon serves thousands of individuals across urban, suburban, and rural communities in the region, with a strong emphasis on evidence-informed practices, culturally responsive care, and individualized treatment planning. As a trusted partner in the Kansas City area, Beacon Mental Health remains committed to strengthening community well-being, advancing integrated care, and promoting recovery and resilience for all those it serves.
ABOUT THE ROLE
As Chief Financial Officer of Beacon Mental Health, you will step into a critical leadership role at a respected community mental health organization in the Kansas City region. Beacon is seeking a steady, people-centered financial leader who can bring clarity, consistency, and discipline to its financial and operational infrastructure while honoring the organization's long- standing mission, culture, and community relationships.
Beacon is looking for a CFO who can thoughtfully stabilize and strengthen the financial systems, processes, and teams that support day to day operations. This includes modernizing and integrating financial workflows, improving automation across accounts payable and billing, strengthening revenue cycle management and accounts receivable, and ensuring accurate, timely, and transparent financial reporting. A central focus of the role will be assessing current systems and practices, taking time to understand how the organization operates today, and then leading measured, well-communicated improvements that reduce risk, improve efficiency, and support long-term sustainability.
Reporting directly to the CEO and serving as a key member of the executive leadership team, the CFO will act as a trusted strategic partner while also being hands on in the early stages of the role. The CFO will work closely with department leaders who are deeply committed to the mission but may not be financially trained, serving as a teacher and collaborator to help them better understand budgets, staffing patterns, and financial accountability. Strengthening the budget development process, improving departmental ownership of financial plans, and ensuring leaders are meaningfully included in financial decision making will be core responsibilities.
The CFO will also play a vital role in supporting the Board of Directors by providing clear, accurate, and actionable financial information that enables informed governance and decision making. Beacon is seeking a leader who can move beyond high-level summaries, communicate financial realities with transparency, and help the Board better understand both risks and opportunities facing the organization.
In addition, the CFO will oversee financial technology and related infrastructure, including evaluating system integrations, cloud readiness, and IT limitations that currently impact efficiency and data access. The role requires a leader who is adaptable, patient, and skilled in change management, someone who understands that meaningful improvement in a mission-driven organization must be balanced with stability, staff capacity, and continuity of care.
This is an exceptional opportunity for a grounded, collaborative, and adaptable financial leader to help Beacon Mental Health strengthen its foundation, support service growth and accessibility, and ensure the organization is well positioned to meet the increasing behavioral health needs of the communities it serves, while preserving the culture, relationships, and mission that define Beacon's work.
