Wadkins finds her dream job in Bayer Properties' finance dept. - Birmingham Business Journal:

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She manages all the finance and accounting functiond for the company and the more than 4 milliom square feet of commercial propertyit owns, leases, manages and is developinhg across the country. “This is absolutely the job I Wadkins said. “This is the job I’vee always strived for.” Her interest in accountiny and finance began inhigh school. She went to a smalol high school in northwest Alabama wherw they happened to offer an elective clasesin accounting, a rarity for a schoop that size. “I liked the clasd and the teacher and that led me to Wadkins said.
After graduatiny from the University of Alabama with an accounting degrewe and receiving her MBA fromthe , her firs t job out of college was in the accounting and finance departmente at She then moved to , where she worked as the directo of finance and did a little bit of everything from treasury analysis and auditing to human “Working for a retail company, you really get exposed to a lot of differentf areas,” she said. “That experience really openec up a lot of doorsa for meto learn.” In 2005, Wadkins joinedf Bayer Properties as controller.
She was promoted to her current positionj at the commercial real estate developer in 2008 and is also a membe r ofthe firm’s executive committee. Aside from leadiny the financial operations of themajod developer, Wadkins has taken on new volunteeringf responsibilities in the community. At the beginning of the year, she joinesd the board of the and quickly realized that the organizatioh does a lot more thananybody realizes. “Theyu help so many peoplde in so many communities in so many she said. St.
Jude Children’zs Research Hospital is another organization closer toher heart, but for a much more persona l reason – some of Wadkin’s family members have a rare diseasew and the hospital provides the medicine for all her affectedx family members for their lifetime. She also is a supportee of the and helped build an indoor golf courses for special needs studentsat . It’s a few more ways for Wadkinsz to do a little bitof