Build Something That Matters
Bring curiosity, sound judgment, and a commitment to careful work. Develop your perspective across legal, commercial, and strategic questions in the US–Indonesia corridor.
A Firm That Rewards Curiosity Above All Else
At Majapahit Group, we believe the best advisory work is rooted in genuine intellectual curiosity. We read widely, economics, political history, legal theory, international finance, because the problems our clients bring us rarely fit neatly inside a single discipline. The advisors who serve them best are the ones who have never stopped asking why.
We value thoughtful preparation, intellectual curiosity and the willingness to reconsider an assumption. Working across the US–Indonesia corridor calls for a deep understanding of each situation, sound frameworks and a commitment to continued learning.
We are a boutique. Every person carries real responsibility from day one. There is no room for passengers, and no appetite for work that is merely adequate. What we offer in return is the opportunity to work on genuinely consequential transactions, and to grow faster than you would almost anywhere else.
We do not look for people who know all the answers. We look for people who ask better questions than anyone else in the room, and who do the work to earn the right to ask them.
Majapahit Group, The Standard We Hold Ourselves ToWhere the Next Generation of Advisors Gets Started
Internships at Majapahit Group are not administrative rotations. From day one, interns engage directly with live advisory work, research, analysis, client-facing materials, and the full intellectual texture of cross-border practice.
We recruit from top universities in the US and Indonesia, and we look for the same qualities in our interns that we look for in full-time hires: intellectual curiosity, strong academic formation, and genuine interest in the US–Indonesia corridor.
The Profile We Hire For
Majapahit Group is a small firm doing serious work. We are selective by design, not to be exclusive, but because the nature of what we do demands people who are built for complexity, comfortable with ambiguity, and committed to continuous growth. These are the qualities we assess for in every candidate, at every level.
The Perpetual Student
You read books outside your field. You follow threads long after they stop being professionally necessary. You find genuine pleasure in understanding how systems work, legal, financial, political, cultural, and you approach new information with openness rather than defensiveness. Curiosity, for you, is not a trait. It is a way of living.
Top-Tier Academic & Professional Formation
We value the formation that comes from rigorous institutions, top-ranked universities, leading law firms, investment banks, global consulting firms, government agencies. Not because pedigree substitutes for substance, but because the habits of mind developed in demanding environments, precision, thoroughness, high standards, are difficult to replicate elsewhere and invaluable in this work.
Driven Beyond the Obvious
You do not settle for what is merely sufficient. You identify the better answer and pursue it, even when no one is watching, even when the deadline has passed, even when good enough would have been acceptable to everyone else. You are not competitive in the destructive sense. You are driven by an internal standard that keeps pace with your own growth.
At Home Between Worlds
Our work sits squarely at the intersection of two different legal, cultural, and financial systems. The people who thrive here are those who can move between contexts without losing precision, who understand that the same transaction can look entirely different depending on which side of the corridor you are standing on, and who bridge that gap with fluency rather than friction.
Strong Opinions, Held Lightly
We want people who form views, who do the analysis, reach a conclusion, and defend it clearly. But equally, people who update those views when new evidence warrants it, without ego and without theater. Intellectual integrity means being willing to say you were wrong, and being curious enough to want to know why.
No Excuses. No Passengers.
At a boutique firm, there is nowhere to hide and no incentive to. Every person carries meaningful responsibility. We seek people who take ownership of their work, their errors, and their growth without waiting to be told. If something needs doing, you do it. If something is wrong, you say so. That is the baseline of professional trust that everything else is built on.
From focused research to fieldwork, our work calls for curiosity, sound judgment, and attention to the details that matter.
Experience that shapes our approach
Majapahit Group's advisory capability is built on individuals who have trained and worked at institutions that demand excellence. The credentials below represent the kinds of backgrounds that define our team, not as status markers, but as evidence of the analytical rigor, professional discipline, and sector depth that our clients rely on.
- Top-Ranked US Business School (MBA, Management Science, STEM) Full-time MBA program · United States
- Leading Global Law Firm (Corporate Law, Banking & M&A) Top-ranked international law firm · Jakarta office
- Climate-Focused Private Equity Fund (Emerging Markets, Climate Adaptation) USD 1.5B emerging markets fund · Southeast Asia
- Fortune 100 Financial Institution (M&A Risk Management) Global Fortune 100 financial institution · New York
- Indonesian Provincial Government (Government Affairs & Policy) Chief of Staff · 9M-resident province · Indonesia
Where You Would Work
Majapahit Group is organized into three integrated practice groups, each with a distinct mandate and client base but a shared commitment to cross-border rigor and advisory excellence. Most engagements draw on more than one group, which means that wherever you sit, you will develop fluency across disciplines far beyond your immediate focus area.
Strategic Initiatives
The Strategic Initiatives group brings together management consulting, corporate strategy, and transaction analysis. We help clients evaluate commercial opportunities, assess risk, and plan cross-border growth in the US–Indonesia corridor. Our work is strategic and analytical; it does not include securities recommendations or investment management.
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Management Consulting & Organizational Advisory Operating model design, market entry strategy, organizational restructuring, and performance improvement for Indonesian companies expanding into the US and US firms entering Southeast Asia.
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Corporate Development M&A target identification, strategic due diligence, deal thesis development, and post-merger integration advisory for cross-border transactions involving US and Indonesian counterparties.
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Capital Strategy & Transaction Analysis Capital structure analysis, commercial scenario assessment, and transaction planning for cross-border projects in Southeast Asia, with licensed external professionals engaged where required.
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Government & Political Advisory Regulatory strategy, government relations, political risk assessment, and public-private partnership structuring, drawing on direct government experience at the provincial level in Indonesia.
Professionals with a consulting or investment banking background who think in frameworks, communicate with precision, and have genuine curiosity about how Southeast Asian markets work and where they are going.
Legal & Compliance
The Legal & Compliance group provides the legal scaffolding that makes cross-border transactions possible, and the compliance architecture that keeps them defensible. This is where legal precision meets commercial judgment. We do not advise clients on what the law says in the abstract; we advise them on what it means for their specific situation, their risk profile, and their objectives. This is the group for people who read legislation the way others read novels, with genuine interest in what it actually means.
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Enterprise Risk Management Second-line risk advisory for M&A transactions, portfolio acquisitions, and cross-border deals, including risk framework design, risk identification, mitigation planning, and integration risk management.
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Contract Advisory & Transactional Legal Support Commercial contract drafting and review, supply and distribution agreements, joint venture structuring, shareholder agreements, and cross-border transactional documentation, with particular depth in US–Indonesia bilateral contexts.
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Regulatory Compliance & Trade Law US and Indonesian trade compliance, customs classification, export controls, OFAC sanctions screening, FDI regulatory approval (BKPM/OJK), anti-money laundering frameworks, and FATCA/FBAR reporting advisory.
Lawyers, compliance professionals, and risk specialists with a cross-border orientation, people who understand that the law is not an obstacle to commercial activity but the architecture that makes it durable.
Finance & Transactions
The Finance & Transactions group supports strategic engagements through financial modeling, cash-flow analysis, and transaction due diligence. We assess commercial assumptions and cross-border risks to help clients make informed business decisions.
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Financial Planning & Treasury Strategic financial planning, cash flow management, working capital optimization, and treasury function advisory for cross-border entities, including capital structure analysis and cross-currency cash management frameworks for US–Indonesia operations.
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Transaction Due Diligence & Financial Modeling Financial scenario modeling, working-capital assessment, and commercial analysis for cross-border mergers, acquisitions, and infrastructure transactions.
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Cross-Border Financial Analysis Analysis of transaction structures, currency exposure, funding requirements, and commercial scenarios for businesses operating between the United States and Indonesia.
Finance professionals and analysts with a rigorous quantitative foundation, people who are as comfortable building a financial model from scratch as they are explaining what it means to a client who has never opened a spreadsheet.
What Joining Majapahit Group Means
We are not for everyone. But for the right person, intellectually serious, professionally ambitious, and genuinely interested in the US–Indonesia corridor, there is no better place to grow.
Real Responsibility from Day One
At a boutique of this size and scope, there is no waiting period before meaningful work. You will engage with actual client situations, cross-border transactions, legal structuring, and financial analysis from the outset, developing a depth of practical capability that would take years to accumulate at a larger institution.
Fluency in Two of the World's Most Important Markets
Working at the US–Indonesia intersection means developing genuine, bankable expertise in two distinct legal and financial systems, an increasingly rare and valuable capability. The professionals who understand both sides of this corridor are in short supply globally and high demand everywhere.
An Environment That Never Stops Teaching
Every engagement is different. Every client situation requires a new configuration of legal knowledge, financial analysis, and cultural fluency. You will never be asked to do the same thing twice in quite the same way, and if the firm is doing its job, you will never stop learning how to do it better.
Ready to Have a Conversation?
We build relationships with exceptional people and create opportunities when the fit is right. If you believe you have the profile described here, the credentials, the curiosity, the drive, we want to hear from you. Browse our open positions below, or send us a direct introduction.