What are the important roles of administrative assistants in the company?

Administrative Assistant role is very important, As you can consider him the the Manager in absence of his/her Department Head, An Administrative Assistant kept cover all the shit of his/her Manager, he/she must be a well organize person to keep intact all the information of the department that what his/her Manager requires.

An administrative assistant is but an administration resource that is no different from administration officers and administration managers except that the administration department in a given organization may need more personnel than others. Hence the distinction between the various people working in administration - one will be the head of admin, below him/her will be one or more admin officers and possibly below them admin assistants.

The duties of an admin manager in a small organization may not be much different from the duties of an admin assistant in a large department. In short, just as no two executives with identical titles will have matching roles, so too the functions of an admin assistant will vary from department to department and from season to season.