Jeffrey J. Geer

Jeffrey (Jeff) J. Geer is the Acting Deputy Comptroller and Chief Accountant at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).  In this role, Mr. Geer serves as the OCC’s authoritative source for bank accounting and financial reporting and provides accounting counsel to OCC examiners, the banking industry, and the accounting profession. He assumed this role in June 2020. 

Previously, Mr. Geer was the Associate Chief Accountant at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) in Washington, DC. Mr. Geer served as a senior technical official on matters related to accounting, auditing, internal controls, financial disclosure, and regulatory reporting. He was responsible for overseeing the monitoring and analysis of domestic and international proposals, standards, and practice issues affecting national banks and federal savings associations. Mr. Geer worked with various parties to identify and resolve issues, and to provide positions in the development, interpretation, and application of standards, regulations, policies, and practices. In performing these duties, he worked with OCC personnel, bankers, regulatory agencies, public accounting firms, trade associations, professional organizations, and accounting and auditing/attestation standard-setting bodies at the national and international level. Mr. Geer represents the OCC on the Accounting and Auditing Expert Group of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. 

Mr. Geer joined the OCC in July 2011 through the merger of the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) with the OCC. Before joining the OCC, Mr. Geer served as the OTS Chief Accountant from August 2004 to July 2011. Prior to moving to Washington, DC, Mr. Geer was the OTS Southeast Regional Accountant and Capital Markets Manager. Mr. Geer began his supervisory career at the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta (later OTS) in 1988. Mr. Geer began his professional career as an auditor in the Atlanta office of KPMG. 

Mr. Geer is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Mr. Geer holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting (_Magna Cum Laude_) from Clemson University in South Carolina.  GO CLEMSON TIGERS!