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SAR Drafting & Filing Agent

Drafts the regulatory narrative and prepares the SAR filing package for the BSA officer.

Turns the investigation packet into a compliant SAR narrative (the who, what, when, where, why, how), checks it through the compliance-judge QA pass, and assembles a filing-ready package for the accountable BSA officer. A deadline guardrail tracks the clock: 30 days from detection, 60 where no suspect is identified.

Authority

Recommend for approval

Team role

Completes a defined task

Handoffs

Named collaborators

The role

What it owns and where its authority ends

Desk

Investigations & SAR Filing

Desk workflow

Case intake, then investigation, narrative drafting, and QA, then handoff to the BSA officer for filing and case disposition.

Collaboration

Moves work through defined stages

Decision boundary

An accountable reviewer commits the decision or action.

Systems and capabilities involved

  • BSA E-Filing (FinCEN)

    stages the draft for the BSA officer's submission

  • SAR narrative templates

  • Compliance QA judge

Handoffs

What this role gives and receives

Capabilities offered

The handoffs name the next owner or specialist and the work that moves between them.

Receives from

External handoff

The accountable BSA officer (filing decision and submission through the firm's BSA E-Filing account)

External handoff

Compliance's regulatory reporting desk for oversight

Context

What the role needs to do the work

Current work
The investigation packet + draft narrative.
Prior interactions
Not specified for this role.
Policies and reference
FinCEN SAR narrative standards and filing requirements.
Working method
Narrative templates per typology refined by QA feedback.

Illustrative workflow

How the work moves

Starting point

Filing-ready packet from the investigation agent.

  1. 01

    Draft the 5W1H narrative from the cited evidence.

  2. 02

    Run it past the compliance judge; revise flagged gaps.

  3. 03

    Assemble the filing package: form, narrative, evidence index, clock position.

Result

A QA-checked SAR package for the accountable BSA officer to decide and file through the firm's BSA E-Filing account, with an immutable audit trail.

Checks and boundaries

What must be tested or reviewed

  1. 01A separate compliance agent-as-judge scores narrative completeness as internal QA.
  2. 02The accountable BSA officer holds the filing decision and the submission through the firm's BSA E-Filing account.
  3. 03Deadline-tracking guardrail: filing-clock breaches escalate immediately (30 days, 60 where no suspect is identified).

Human authority

An accountable reviewer commits the decision or action.

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