If the plan will accept it. Remember if you have any basis in your IRA from non deductible contributions you cannot roll the basis into the 401k. You may have to certify to the 401k that no basis is included in the rollover if the plan even accepts IRA rollovers.

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• The tax code explicitly prohibits the rollover to a 401(k) of after-tax amounts from an IRA (the nondeductible contributions).
• All of your traditional IRA accounts are considered in aggregate, so your IRA basis is not isolated in any particular IRA account.  However, rollovers from a traditional IRA to a 401(k) are deemed to come first from the pre-tax amounts in the aggregate of your IRA accounts.  For you to avoid rolling nondeductible contributions into the 401(k), you must make sure that the amount that remains in your traditional IRAs at the end of the year plus any other amounts distributed and amounts converted to a Roth IRA during the year do not exceed the amount of basis that you had in nondeductible contributions.  This can be ensured by first doing a Roth conversion of the entire nondeductible basis amount (or more), then, within the same year rolling over the rest of your traditional IRAs to the 401(k).  Basically, to accomplish your intent you must ensure that your Roth conversion amount equals or exceeds your basis and nothing remains in traditional IRAs at the end of the year.

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