Business Central leads and architects who have taken an implementation from scoping to hypercare.
FERG Search is a specialist recruiter for Business Central functional consultants, leads, AL developers and cloud migration specialists in Australia and New Zealand, permanent and contract. Every search is run by the founder, Fintan Ferguson, for Microsoft partners and the businesses that run Business Central.
Cloud migrations, finance and supply chain rollouts, and the AL code behind them. Business Central is where many of the Microsoft partners we work with in Australia and New Zealand are busiest, and where good people are committed before a brief is signed off. The people we place have taken an implementation from scoping to hypercare.
First shortlist within 48 hours of an agreed brief.
The seats we fill in Business Central.
- Business Central functional consultants: finance, supply chain, manufacturing.
- Business Central leads and solution architects.
- AL developers.
- Cloud migration specialists.
- Business Central practice leads.
- Managed services and support consultants for Business Central.
Checked technically and commercially, before you meet them.
- The implementation they led from scoping to hypercare.
- The finance or supply chain process they can own end to end.
- The AL work that was theirs.
- How they handled the migration data, and what broke.
What the seat pays.
Business Central briefs stall when the lead is budgeted at a functional consultant's band.
Business Central lead: $165k to $190k. Sydney. Contract $1,000 to $1,200 a day.
Business Central functional consultant: $125k to $155k. Sydney. Contract $850 to $1,050 a day.
A lead sits $35k to $40k above a functional consultant on permanent terms and $150 a day above on contract. In Business Central especially, good leads are committed elsewhere by the time a brief is signed off, so agree the band first. Permanent figures are base salary excluding super. Contract figures are per day excluding GST. Sydney unless stated; Melbourne generally runs 4% to 6% lower, and where a Melbourne band is shown, that band applies.
Straight answers on Business Central.
What does a Business Central consultant earn in Australia?
The FERG Search Salary Guide 2026 puts a Business Central functional consultant in Sydney at $125k to $155k base, excluding super, or $850 to $1,050 a day on contract excluding GST. A Business Central lead sits at $165k to $190k, or $1,000 to $1,200 a day. Melbourne runs 4% to 6% lower.
Can you find a Business Central developer who has done a cloud migration?
Yes. The move from on premises to Business Central online is the single line that moves a developer’s band, and it is the first thing we check: what they migrated, how the extensions were rebuilt and what broke in hypercare.
Do you recruit Business Central roles in New Zealand?
Yes, anywhere in New Zealand. Auckland and Wellington are the busiest Business Central markets we see, and we recruit everywhere else too, permanent and contract, with the same founder running the search.
Do you recruit Business Central roles for Microsoft partners?
Yes. Most of the Business Central hiring we see in Australia and New Zealand sits inside Microsoft partners, and most of the Business Central people we place are consultants and leads joining or moving between them. We also place in house Business Central owners for the businesses that run it.
Brief a Business Central role.
Agree the band before the search starts and the search gets shorter.