Ms Cooney has previously held senior manager, auditing and consulting roles with Deloitte in New Zealand and Deloitte Touche in London and was the Chief Financial Officer for Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi. Laurissa currently serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director for Goodman Property Ltd, Accordant Group Ltd and Aotearoa Circle and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee of the Charitable Investment Trust for Ngai Tai ki Tamaki. She also holds a role as co-chair for the Tourism Industry Transformation Plan for the environment with MBIE. Laurissa is also a Committee Member of the Chapter Zero NZ Steering Group. She is risk committee member and chair of People and Diversity Committee.