Becky Keesling is chief auditor for BOK Financial Corporation. She is responsible for ensuring the Company’s internal controls and risk management activities are designed properly and operating effectively, performing independent assessments of the Company’s compliance with various laws and regulations and serving in an advisory capacity for certain projects ongoing throughout the Company.
Keesling joined BOK Financial in 2004 as vice president and corporate audit manager, and was instrumental in implementing Sarbanes-Oxley controls across the corporation. She also managed the corporate audit team and was the primary interface with the company’s independent auditors. Later, she was promoted to senior vice president and manager of loan portfolio reporting, where she managed a team responsible for financial reporting, as it pertained to the loan portfolio and allowance for credit losses.
Prior to joining BOK Financial, Keesling spent 10 years in the public accounting industry primarily with Ernst & Young LLP where she rose to the position of audit senior manager and served on the BOK Financial account.
Keesling has an accounting degree from Southwest Missouri State University and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Oklahoma Society of Certified Public Accountants and the Institute of Internal Auditors. She previously served on the board of Undercroft Montessori School in Tulsa and was the treasurer for five years.
Current role