Simplify summation to a closed form

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$a_n=\sum _{n=1}^k\left(\frac{1}{\left(k-n+1\right) n}\right)$
This looks quite simple but I'm not able to write this in a closed form. I encountered this while trying to analyse the coefficients in $\sum_{n=2}^{\infty}a_n t^n$ for its growth, where $t$ is a variable. Perhaps the closed form would help to analyse things better. I also need to check whether there exists any relation among the coefficients.

P.S: Absolute convergence can be taken care.

Thank you in advance

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(I swapped $n$ and $k$.)

$\begin{array}\\ a_n &=\sum _{k=1}^n\left(\dfrac{1}{(n-k+1) k}\right)\\ &=\dfrac1{n+1}\sum _{k=1}^n\left(\dfrac1{k}+\dfrac1{n-k+1}\right)\\ &=\dfrac1{n+1}\left(\sum _{k=1}^n\dfrac1{k}+\sum _{k=1}^n\dfrac1{n-k+1}\right)\\ &=\dfrac1{n+1}\left(\sum _{k=1}^n\dfrac1{k}+\sum _{k=1}^n\dfrac1{k}\right)\\ &=\dfrac{2}{n+1}\sum _{k=1}^n\dfrac1{k}\\ &=\dfrac{2}{n+1}(\ln(n)+\gamma+o(1))\\ \end{array} $