Intellij cannot find GRADLE_HOME and gradlew contains a bad version

[moaxcp]

1. emerge gradle
2. eselect gradle list to make sure it is selected
3. emerge Intellij
4. create gradle project with gradle init
5. attempt to import project in Intellij

At this point I am getting an error with GRADLE_HOME not being set. Also if I try to use gradle wrapper it cannot find the download because the gentoo install of gradle puts a date in the gradle verison for the gradle wrapper.

I may be missing something to set GRADLE_HOME. Is there a standard way to set this? The last problem seems to break a core feature of gradle.