Commercial Finance Manager - CMG

Location: Taplow

Position:
Commercial Finance Manager
- Crematoria

Location:

Maidenhead, Berkshire (Hybrid flexible working, 3 days on-site) Job Type: Full-Time, Permanent Salary:
Up to £90,000 per annum Help shape the future of one of the UK's most successful and growing crematoria businesses. Life Services Group has brought together some of the UK's most recognised end-of-life brands under a single vision: to support families through every stage of planning for and navigating life's most difficult moments. As part of this evolution, we are investing heavily in the future growth of our Crematoria business, an already successful and profitable division with ambitious plans for expansion in the years ahead.

This is an opportunity to join that journey at a pivotal moment and become the senior finance partner helping shape its future direction. This is not a reporting role. This is a genuinely strategic Commercial Finance leadership opportunity where you'll sit alongside senior operational and finance leaders, influence major investment decisions and provide the commercial insight that drives growth, profitability and long-term business performance.

The opportunity As Commercial Finance Manager, you'll be the lead finance partner to the Crematoria Managing Director and leadership team, owning the full divisional P&L and acting as the financial voice behind some of the business's most important decisions. You'll be responsible for shaping strategy, leading forecasting and budgeting cycles, assessing investment opportunities, building business cases and helping the business identify where to invest, grow and improve performance.

This includes supporting decisions around estate growth, site development, operational performance and commercial opportunities across the division. As our crematoria network continues to evolve, your work will directly influence how and where the business grows over the coming years. What makes this role exciting? This is a rare opportunity to join a profitable business unit that already performs strongly but has significant growth ambitions ahead.

You'll partner directly with senior leadership, have visibility across key strategic initiatives and play a critical role in helping the business make informed investment and commercial decisions. Unlike many business partnering roles, your recommendations won't sit in a report. They will directly influence the future direction of the business. You'll also be joining during an exciting period for Life Services Group as we bring our businesses together under a unified strategy, creating greater collaboration, investment and long-term opportunity across the Group.

What you'll be doing Owning the full divisional P&L and capital expenditure planning. Leading budgeting, forecasting and long-range planning activity. Acting as key finance partner to the Managing Director and leadership team. Building robust business cases to support investment and growth initiatives. Providing commercial challenge and strategic insight to senior stakeholders. Leading monthly performance reviews and translating data into meaningful actions.

Supporting estate expansion, revenue growth initiatives and operational performance improvement. Presenting insights and recommendations to ELT and Executive stakeholders. What we're looking for We are specifically seeking an experienced senior commercial finance professional. To be successful, you must already have substantial experience owning a full P&L within a complex, operational or multi-site business environment. You will have operated as a trusted business partner to senior stakeholders and be comfortable influencing, challenging and supporting leadership teams on critical commercial decisions.

This role requires somebody who can arrive and immediately add value at a senior level. We're particularly interested in candidates who can demonstrate:
Proven ownership of a full divisional or business P&L. Significant experience within a complex multi-site organisation. Direct partnership with Managing Directors, ELT, SLT, C-Suite or Board-level stakeholders. Strong commercial judgement and business partnering capability. Experience leading budgeting, forecasting and performance review cycles. A track record of developing investment cases and supporting business growth decisions. The confidence to challenge constructively and influence senior decision-making.

Rewarding leadership with real impact and progression As a key contributor to our business,…