Liz McKee

SUPPORTING NORTHERN IRELAND BUSINESSES WITH INNOVATIVE WORKING CAPITAL SOLUTIONS

Liz McKee has headed up the Commercial Finance team for Bank of Ireland UK since July 2021, having held a number of management positions within the business for more than 20 years.

Now, just over a year into her new leadership role, Liz shares some refl ections, insights, and thoughts.

“Bank of Ireland Commercial Finance is a leading working capital provider to growing businesses in Northern Ireland, from small businesses to large corporates and across a wide range of business sectors. Our market leading Invoice Finance, Stock Funding and Supplier Payment products and platforms are continually evolving, based on customer feedback.

In the same way as the pandemic created both thriving and struggling sectors, the continued growth or recovery of all sectors requires tailored and personal customer solutions. Our range of funding solutions is diverse, providing facilities based on a business’ outstanding credit sales, funding for high stockholding businesses and supplier payment facilities. This range gives us the tools to address our customers’ working capital needs in a bespoke manner. We believe that proactively identifying businesses’ changing needs and being very responsive in discussing and addressing these is critical. The range of working capital solutions we offer has never been more important, or in demand, than in these current times of high infl ation, with rising energy and raw material costs and signifi cant challenges to supply chains and the levels of stockholding required by businesses to withstand this turbulence.”

“While more and more businesses like the convenience of our online technology for their day-to-day transactions, we’re proud of our ability to combine technology with our local team based in Belfast, who work in partnership with businesses and stay central to their continued success. It’s a privilege for us to help support and develop the fi nancial wellbeing of businesses across Northern Ireland and beyond.”

“Our ambition is to be part of the best business bank in Northern Ireland. We are at the heart of our local communities, helping our customers to thrive by providing innovative and effective working capital solutions that help local businesses to grow. Enabling our customers to be the best they can be and hearing them say ‘we could not have done it without Commercial Finance’ is the biggest reward for us.”

In her personal life Liz is married with two grown-up children. From Belfast originally, Liz has lived mostly in North Down. Having moved house and taken on her new role in the past 12 months, Liz is looking forward to spending a bit more time enjoying her love of genealogy, reading and running.

For further information or to engage directly with one of our Commercial Finance team, please feel free to contact Liz at liz. mckee@boi.com or visit www. bankofi relanduk.com/business/ business-team/.

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