CAREERS AT CANADA ICI

Explore Working With Canada ICI

We’ve grown, learned, and evolved

Canada ICI came to be in 1993, and over the years, we’ve intentionally set our vision and aligned the firm with goals that nurtured both personal and professional life. It wasn’t about growth for the sake of growth. It became about creating a purposeful culture.

Entrepreneurial with a youthful, fresh outlook on business, we chose to work with freedom, to work with friends, and to develop our expertise by learning from each other. We would do it our way, and we would eventually succeed.
Explore life at Canada ICI

“The key ingredient to our recipe is the belief that you can achieve better success by working together than you can individually. “

EXPLORE

Want meaningful work?

Look no further.

This isn’t your typical career application. This is a two-way-street. Your interview of us is just as important as our interview of you. We aren’t looking for job applicants, we are looking for careers to invest in.

Let’s get to know each other.

"The world is evolving, we think the industry should too."

We're different. Let us show you how.

High-performing teams want to work in a collaborative environment that values connection and support. “The Great Resignation” has been about solid talent saying “enough is enough!” to outdated policies and practices that don’t work for them and, instead, choosing something better—choosing a company like Canada ICI. We see the current environment as an opportunity to showcase how and why we do things differently. How and why we do things better.

Why Canada ICI

WHY CANADA ICI

A place to grow, to contribute to a team, and be supported.

A place to develop into a leader and help mentor our leaders of tomorrow. You will help shape the Canadian commercial real estate landscape.

You might not know it yet, but we do.

The Platform

Want to learn all you can about our industry? Leverage our experience and earn your PhD in real estate with us. (The PhD is metaphorical; the experience is golden.) Canada ICI provides the foundation for you to start and grow a successful career. We’re a group of highly-collaborative leaders-building-leaders who maximize the outcomes of everyone on the team, including yours.

The Journey

We’ll support you in setting a course and trekking toward your destination. One of the things that we are really good at is developing future leaders in the commercial real estate industry. Want to experience different markets? Check. Want to manage assets for big portfolio clients? You bet. What about originating or underwriting loans? Yep. Build a network of world-class developers? Heck yes.

The Trust

The most important perk you’ll get here is our trust. When you’re onboard, we’re behind you all the way. We trust your instinct. We trust you to live your best life, professionally and personally. And we’ll trust you to tell us how we can help.

Life at Canada ICI

LIFE AT CANADA ICI

You Will Thrive

Some basic ingredients are all you need. A desire to work with others and help others succeed. A fervour to learn and develop. A passion for real estate and for propelling the industry forward. It’s actually pretty simple.

LIFE AT CANADA ICI

The Culture

You’re not limited here and you won’t be stuck working on one type of asset class (e.g. office, residential). At Canada ICI, you’ll gain constant exposure to a high-volume of deals. As you work on them within the context of a team, you’ll be learning quickly, getting tons of experience working on different deal types across various markets. That’s how you become an (almost instant) expert. In traditional firms, one person writes the fourth office lease deal after doing three. Sure, that person is a master at one thing. Because they keep doing it again and again, they could do it in their sleep. Which is not good because that’s how they end up: working asleep. At CICI, you’ll be wide awake and kept on your toes by the opportunity to work on a wide spectrum of deals. Never a dull moment around here.

Read Doug Milne’s post “Know the Game.”

“You can’t fly professionally unless you’re soaring personally.”

Real Stories

LIFE AT CANADA ICI

Our Leadership

At Canada ICI, we work to develop leaders. And we’re great at it. Maybe because our managing partners still produce and manage their own portfolios. Our leaders are here to mentor you, and model creative and collaborative thinking. That’s how leaders make leaders. By walking the walk.

LIFE AT CANADA ICI

Market Makers

Here’s what it takes to be a “market maker.”

Be living proof. Each of us has built a successful career in an environment where we help one another achieve personal and professional goals.
Succeed (and fail) together. We work together as a team, celebrating each other’s wins, whether as individuals or contributors, and learning together from our failures.
Reject bureaucracy. Our corporate structure is flat, not top-down. It’s based on mentorship, support, and giving back to the culture more than you take
Do more, learn more. Because we do more deals than any other firm in the country, we learn faster here than anywhere else.

Piqued your interest? Let’s chart your course together in the direction of personal, financial, and professional fulfillment. Build your community, reputation, and leadership skills with us. It’s your move.

1993

Established

25+

Years in the business

100+

Dedicated team members

8

Offices across Canada

$6.9B

Annual mortgage volume

625

Transactions funded annually

The Journey

THE JOURNEY

Explore Your Path

Career journeys at Canada ICI follow an individualized approach as opposed to a prepackaged, one-size-fits-all approach. After all, one career does not fit all. That’s why you get to decide what you want to accomplish, what’s important to you, and what you want to learn. Your goals inform your career path, not goals set for you by someone else.

Interview Us

At Canada ICI, the hiring process is a two-way street. We want to be sure your values align with ours and we want you to do the same thing. We’ll meet with you and then encourage you to do coffee with our team members, so that you can get a feel for one another in a relaxed, informal setting.

We'll Make an Offer

If we’re on the same page, if our values align, we’ll call you and make an offer. Next, we’ll train you. The same people you’ve already met are responsible for giving you the right tools to make an impact. It’s all hands on deck ensuring that you’re successful. You’re part of the team now.

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THE JOURNEY

The Roles

Originators

Aspiring originators are provided with a foundation of all the necessary tools such as technology, admin support, and caring leadership. We describe the culture in our origination department as dynamic and forward-thinking. Our originators are progressive, entrepreneurial problem solvers.

Underwriters

New underwriters work in a fast-paced environment where they’re exposed to every asset class in the marketplace. We don’t shelter our underwriters but instead give them a broad range of experiences working on deals from every aspect.

Asset Management

The culture in Canada ICI’s Asset Management Group is growing and defining itself. Our Asset Management Group applies a disciplined, structured, methodical, and meticulous approach to loan management.

Executive and Leadership

To be a leader here at Canada ICI, you have to live the attributes of someone already in a leadership position at this firm. Advancement is not based on tenure and it’s not dependent on skillset alone. Your progress in the organization is based on the value you bring to the team and your positive impact on your peers, your community, your clients, and the industry.

Opportunities

OPPORTUNITIES

Careers

For Professionals

Already started your finance career, but want to level up and level us up at the same time? Congratulations! Today marks the spot in your journey where you really take the initiative and make your career everything it could be.

For New Graduates

Canada ICI is not top-down. When you begin a career with us, you’re on equal footing with, and will probably be working alongside, someone with 20 years more experience. They’ve been in the game longer, but you both share the same goal.

”We’re entrepreneurial in nature and therein lies the opportunity. Everywhere you turn at Canada ICI, there’s a new path to explore.”

The Benefits

Medical Benefits
Dental Coverage
$1000 annual benefit coverage for psychology
Short- and Long-term disability
Life insurance
Health Spending Account
Employee and Family Assistance Program
Flexible work schedules
Work-from-home workstations for ease of movement between home and office
Cloud based technology to support working from home

We're advocating for a more socially conscious industry

At Canada ICI we are continuously growing and learning to become a more socially conscious organization that is committed to bettering the communities in which we work and operate. The demands and priorities of society are changing, bringing to the business world an emergence of environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations at every turn. We’re committed to getting better.

Take the Next Step

TAKE THE NEXT STEP

Let's Connect

If none of our current openings are a fit, we still want to hear from you. We are always looking for that next game changer and good investments in relationships create value. We’ll invest in you, so why not invest in us?