Darlene L. Wilson

Managing Principal of Relay Accounting Management Firm

To whom do you attribute your success?

My father, my confidant, my ultimate mentor, and coach paved the way for me. Even in his death, he lives within me. I hear his voice and continue to rely on his past guidance and wisdom. My father was the ultimate businessman and was so incredibly talented and intelligent. The start of my business, the initial growth and hurdles were not manageable nor possible without my father’s guidance.

Do you work locally or nationally?

No business location is outside the scope of our ability to service. Our proven leading technology and options to transmit proprietary information securely makes you and your company only a phone call and click away from our team. Allow our team to keep you fiscally fit!

If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be?

My one piece of advice would be to learn all you can about the product or service you want to sell. Next, determine if there is a market and will you fill a need. You need a mentor and someone who is operating in your space and is doing it successfully. Adopt solid business practices from the very beginning.

Relay Accounting Management (RAM) specializes in relationships with entrepreneurs through business growth and development opportunities by providing virtual CFO services, business consulting, and accounting management services. We can also train and develop internal staff on the use of accounting software for bookkeeping, payroll processing and tax payment requirements. We are Accountants Turning Our Clients Vision Into Value!

 

In our accounting firm, it is our goal to provide the highest level of accounting and bookkeeping expertise and access to the latest technologies. We believe even routine accounting and bookkeeping functions deserve special treatment. Our aim is to reduce the burden critical non-core functions by managing them virtually in a more efficient, productive, and profitable manner. We understand that choosing to outsource is a critical business decision and usually the difference of your organization disengaging to realize the next level in business through financial projections and forecast that empowers management to work more on the processes and the daily operation of the business. Be assured that our skilled team of accountants and bookkeepers have sufficient exposure and experience of handling outsourced accounting, bookkeeping and tax preparation assignments.

Bio:

Darlene Wilson is a distinct representative of how Birmingham businesses operate given effective and efficient leadership of their organization. With more than twenty-five years in the corporate banking and public accounting industry, more than fifteen of those years as an entrepreneur in our city qualifies her as a leading entrepreneur in Metro Birmingham and many other regions and states.

 

Darlene received her Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Montevallo. She is honored for being recently named to the 2019 National List of the Top 100 Influential Execs in Finance. Her firm was also recently nominated for ICIC’s 2019 Inner City 100 Award. The Inner City 100 is a national ranking of America’s fastest-growing urban businesses in inner cities. She completed the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business Program at Babson College in the Fall of 2018 and Emerging Leaders through the U.S. Small Business Administration in 2017.

 

Darlene was selected to serve on Regions Bank Advisory Board for the Birmingham market in 2019 and is also a member of the Inaugural Small Business Council for the City of Birmingham where she serves as the chair of the City Services Committee. She was appointed by Mayor Randall Woodfin to Birmingham Airport Authority Board of Directors in 2018 where she serves as the Chair of the Audit and Finance Committee. Darlene also serves as Treasurer of The WellHouse and Alabama Women in Business. She is Immediate Past Board Chair of REV Birmingham where she continues to serve on the executive committee and Board of Directors. She is also a Member of Foundation Capital where she serves on the Loan Review Committee.