Advice: BP IST Finance & Risk Summer Internship

I applied for BP's IST Trading Internship Program but ended up being offered an internship within BP's IST Finance & Risk division instead. Since my career goal is to become a Commodity Trader, I am just trying to figure out if this opportunity would take me in the right direction or not.

Finance & Risk is split up into Accounting/Reporting/Control, Operational Excellence, Settlements and Commodity Risk. The last two of these sound like they would actually teach me something useful but the other two I fear are very far away from the actual commodity trading business.

Let's say I apply to full-time Commodity Trading Graduate Programmes next year. Would this internship on my CV be to any help? Maybe most importantly, would gaining knowledge within Finance & Risk for a summer teach me valuable things that would be useful to know as a Commodity Trader?

I would love to hear any advice on whether you think this is a good opportunity or if I might as well pass on it.

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