Priya Shankar

Priya is a sector specialist on the Lendrly desk and writes educational guidance on finance for hospitality, ecommerce and other revenue-driven UK SMEs. She qualified as an accountant and spent seven years working with restaurant groups, online retailers and small services businesses on their year-end accounts, tax filings and short-term funding decisions. She joined the editorial team in 2025 as a contributor — not in any advisory capacity — to write sector-specific explanations of how lenders read these business models. On Lendrly she covers SME finance topics including hospitality finance, ecommerce funding and tax-bill funding, and explains the documents owners are typically asked to share. Nothing in her work is regulated financial advice.