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Ex-Lloyds SME Area Director joins One Stop Business Finance

Fast-growing Yorkshire-based SME funding specialist One Stop Business Finance has appointed former Lloyds Banking Group Area Director, Katie Roberts, to head its business development team and drive its growth strategy.

Taking up the role of Business Development Director, Katie is tasked with leading and expanding One Stop’s new business team of three business development managers covering Yorkshire and Humberside, the North West and East Midlands. This team is set to expand in the coming months to cover the area from the M4 corridor to the Scottish Boarder as Katie and her co-directors elevate the business to the next level.

Katie brings a wealth of experience to One Stop, having previously worked for the Lloyds Banking Group for the last 18 years. After starting initially with Lloyds as a branch cashier, she progressed to various roles within the bank, including a period working with clients in the education sector, before specialising with SME clients and managing the team supporting them. Her latest position was as Area Director for Leeds, which involved managing the relationship managers who looked after SME businesses with a turnover between £1m - £25m.

Katie says: “I’m really excited to be taking up my new role with One Stop Business Finance and continue to specialise in working with SMEs who are the lifeblood of our economy. What’s most pleasing is the great flexibility that OSBF has at its disposal to provide tailored funding solutions for all sorts of clients, without the corporate restraints that often prevent the major banks from providing the best support.

“I’m looking forward to building on the great business development team that we already have in place, dedicated to providing funding solutions backed by the highest levels of customer service. With OSBF achieving a record month very recently, it is clear that there is a strong appetite amongst SMEs for an alternative, more flexible route to funding, and we’ll be working hard to connect many more businesses with our funding solutions.”

Based in rural East Yorkshire in the village of Laytham, One Stop Business Finance provides secured loans from its own funding and through its network of finance providers for SME clients who are a limited company and able to offer security for their debts. The company differs from mainstream banks by working to find tailored solutions for an SME’s particular circumstances, taking clients through a process to identify the most suitable and cost effective options and ensuring that responsible lending is at the heart of what they do.

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