Experience

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  Self-employed

  • Private Caregiver/Companion Services

    • Aug 2021 - Present

    Providing premium in home care services specialising in dementia for clients in the Eastern Suburbs of Auckland. I provide 24 hour care and live-in for 1 - 14 days at a time. I care

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  Parliamentary Services

  • Blenheim

  • Member Support/Social Media

    • Jan 2018 - Mar 2020
    • Blenheim
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  Eventfinda

  • New Zealand
  • Technology, Information and Internet
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Project Manager - Eventfinda Singapore

    • Sep 2012 - Jan 2017

    Following a staff lottery in the Eventfinda offices Michelle drew the responsibility to seed and launch Eventfinda Singapore.Over a period of a few months she created the locations, venues, events and news items needed to send the site live. Since its successful launch her tasks have included reaching out to venues and promoters, writing news items and updating event content.

  • Business Advisor

    • Jul 2005 - Aug 2012

    Michelle has been involved with Eventfinda since it began as a simple idea by her husband and Founder Michael Turner.

Her involvement with Eventfinda has been at many levels including the name, the structure of the site, content loading to seed the original site and Financial Control. 

Utilising her connections from the music industry enabled many contacts to be established including the hiring of employees and getting promoters and artist managers utilising Eventfinda's tools from launch.

 Michelle is currently involved with the operation of Eventfinda Singapore.Eventfinda is world class event marketing and syndication platform founded in New Zealand.

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  ACTIVE LEGAL SOLUTIONS LIMITED

  • Glendow

  • Contract Accountant

    • Aug 2015 - Mar 2016
    • Glendow

    I am currently contracted to bring all of Active Legal's accounts up to date and to provide business advice as needed.

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  Serato INC LP

  • Auckland

  • Financial Controller

    • Jun 2011 - Aug 2012
    • Auckland

    Michelle was engaged by Serato on a part time basis to bring structure to the financial side of the company.Serato required a commercially experienced Financial Controller to bring stability, expertise and timeliness to its fast growing operations. While at Serato Michelle implemented a budgeting...

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  EMI Music NZ Ltd

  • CFO/COO

    • Oct 2004 - Apr 2008

    Michelle’s role at EMI involved overseeing the whole accounting function including budgeting, reporting to Head Office in the UK, business planning, expense control and compliance with local and international reporting standards.

As COO her role covered all operations including HR, the manageme...

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  Knight Coldicutt

  • Financial Controller

    • Sep 2002 - Apr 2004

    Knight Coldicutt is a legal firm specialising in work relating to property ownership, investment and development.Along with the Managing Partner, Michelle provided annual budgets for the firm, management of partnership accounts and systems for dealing with multi-unit developments.Overseeing the T...

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  Warner Music NZ Ltd

  • Accountant

    • Apr 1986 - Mar 2002

    Michelle’s first job was as a book keeper for the then WEA Records.Over a period of 10 years she studied for and successfully completed a Bachelor Of Business Studies with a major in accounting.She was lucky to have been a part of the transition from cassette tape to CD when the record business h...