She has 14 years of experience in the financial sector, specialising in invoice finance.

In the past, Luan has worked as a credit controller and business development manager for Bibby Financial Services in Bradford, and a regional sales manager for Aldermore in Leeds.

In her newly created role, Luan will run the business on an operational level and provide additional support to the directors.

She will liaise with appointed representatives across the UK, funders and customers.

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Luan said: “I’m delighted to be joining the ABL team at a time when the business is in such an exciting period of growth and I’m looking forward to the challenge of developing a brand-new role.”

Alex Beardsley, joint managing director at ABL Business, added: “As we have grown significantly, the increase in business meant that we needed to create this additional management role so we can continue to provide great service to our clients and partners.

“Luan will support and guide the sales team, releasing myself and fellow managing director Andy Redman to concentrate our efforts on further growing the business to the next level.

“To this end, we needed someone with a background of working in a fast-paced sales and customer service environment.

“Luan has a wealth of such experience and she also brings with her to ABL a network of excellent contacts and can continue to support them, now backed with a much wider offering across all financial areas, as well as her own specialism of invoice finance.”